When You Are Engulfed in Flames
A Audiobook, Funny, Biography book. A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have...
Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from the French countryside to a hilariously uncomfortable memory of buying drugs in a mobile home in rural North Carolina. In this remarkable new volume, Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life--having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger on a plane or armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds--to the most deeply resonant human truths. Culminating in a brilliant account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris's sixth collection is a new masterpiece of comic writing from "a writer worth treasuring" (Seattle Times).
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Like anyone nostalgic for a time he didn't live through, I chose to weed out the little inconveniences: polio, say, or the thought of eating stewed squirrel. The world was simply grander back then, somehow more civilized, and nicer to look at. David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames // Given enough time, I guess anything can look good. All it has to do is survive. David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames // This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable. David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames //
people looking for a kinder, gentler Sedaris Sedarians I think the honeymoon is over. Or, maybe I'm just too hard to please. Wait, I don't think those are mutually exclusive. In any event, I was let down. This collection of stories/anecdotes seemed more blog-worthy than book-worthy to me. It gave me the sense that he was under pressure to put another book out. To say something. So he follows...
