Format:
Book
Title:
Naked / David Sedaris.
Author:
Sedaris, David.
Call Number:
818 Sedaris
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
Boston : Little, Brown and Co., c1997.
Description:
viii, 291 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"In Naked, David Sedaris's message - alternately rendered in "Fakespeare," Italian, Spanish, and pidgin Greek - is the same: pay attention to me."--BOOK JACKET. "Whether he's taking to the road with a thieving quadriplegic, sorting out the fancy from the extra-fancy in a bleak fruit-packing factory, or celebrating Christmas in the company of a recently paroled prostitute, this collection of memoirs creates a wickedly incisive portrait of an all-too-familiar world. It takes Sedaris from his humiliating bout with obsessive behavior in "A Plague of Tics" to the title story, in which he is finally forced to face his naked self in the mirrored sunglasses of a lunatic. At this soulful and moving moment, he picks potato chip crumbs from his pubic hair and wonders what it all means."--BOOK JACKET. "This remarkable journey into his own life follows a path of self-effacement and a lifelong search for identity, leaving him both under suspicion and overdressed."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects:
Sedaris, David.
Humorists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Humor.
Contents:
Chipped Beef -- A Plague of Tics -- Get Your Ya-Ya's Out -- Next of Kin -- Cyclops -- The Women's Open -- True Detective -- Dix Hill -- I Like Guys -- The Drama Bug -- Dinah, the Christmas Whore -- Planet of the Apes -- The Incomplete Quad -- C.O.G. -- Something for Everyone -- Ashes -- Naked.
ISBN:
9780316777735
0316779490
0316777730 (pbk.)