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When You Are Engulfed in Flames

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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.

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We had to wait entirely too long for this book
Nobody does satire like Sedaris
His stories have never been funnier

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Book Trade Paperback: $13.99

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ISBN: 9780316154680

Publisher : Little Brown & Co

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Letting It All Hang Out

Amos Lassen wrote on 04/06/2011:

David Sedaris again hides nothing in his collection of essays. “When You Are Engulfed in Flames”. He is not shy about embarrassment that most of us relegate to diaries or tell our therapists; incidents like lancing boils or getting crabs from thrift store pants. Sedaris bares his body and soul and we laugh both at and with him. He has a knack for dialog and description and details that are quite demented.
Some may be disappointed with this book, however. Sedaris has made such a hit with his prior books that it is almost impossible to top himself and in reading this collection, I had the sense that there was not much new (and in fact several of the pieces had already been published in “The New Yorker”).
Nevertheless, it is still very funny and a good read and for those who do not know Sedaris, this could be a great introduction to his humor.