When you are Engulfed in Flames

Locations
Call Number: Large Print 817 Se, Adult Book / Large Print / Nonfiction / Literary Arts / Sedaris, David
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown Large Print 4-week checkout	Large Print 817 Se	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Large Print / Nonfiction / Literary Arts / Sedaris, David	4-week checkout	On Shelf

It's catching -- Keeping up -- The understudy -- This old house -- Buddy, can you spare a tie? -- Road trips -- What I learned -- That's amore -- The monster mash -- In the waiting room -- Solution to Saturday's puzzle -- Adult figures charging toward a concrete toadstool -- Momento mori -- All the beauty you will ever need -- Town and country -- Aerial -- The man in the hut -- Of mice and men -- April in Paris -- Crybaby -- Old faithful -- The smoking section.
Once again, David Sedaris brings together a collection of essays so uproariously funny and profoundly moving that his legions of fans will fall for him once more. He tests the limits of love when Hugh lances a boil from his backside, and pushes the boundaries of laziness when, finding the water shut off in his house in Normandy, he looks to the water in a vase of fresh cut flowers to fill the coffee machine. From armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds to the awkwardness of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a sleeping fellow passenger on a plane, David Sedaris uses life's most bizarre moments to reach new heights in understanding love and fear, family and strangers. Culminating in a brilliantly funny account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris's sixth essay collection will be avidly anticipated.--From publisher description.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Hilarious! submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on August 28, 2012, 11:52am Humor author David Sedaris told Jon Stewart that he travelled to Japan in order to quit smoking because he had heard that the culture shock might help. While there he read strange suggestions and safety tips for travelers, such as what you should do if you are engulfed in flames (sadly, the brochure he read gave the wrong advice), hence the book title.

David Sedaris' stories about his life are simultaneously hilarious and sad with indirect social commentary throughout. Now an openly gay man living in Paris with his husband, Sedaris also contributes to NPR's "This American Life." His sister Amy Sedaris also has a book, TV show and movie ("Strangers with Candy," co-starring Stephen Colbert) at the AADL.

So funny! submitted by KOH on August 30, 2017, 9:30pm I enjoy all of David Sedaris' books!