Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

Anyone that has read NAKED and BARREL FEVER, or heard David Sedaris speaking live or on the radio will tell you that a new collection from him is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris from New York inspired these hilarious new pieces, including 'Me Talk Pretty One Day', about his attempts to learn French from a sadistic teacher who declares that 'every day spent with you is like having a caesarean section'. His family is another inspiration. 'You Can't Kill the Rooster' is a portrait of his brother, who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers of food and cashiers with six-inch fingernails. Hilarious, sharply perceptive and surpassing all national boundaries of humour, ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY is a compelling introduction or a very welcome return to David Sedaris - compared by The New Yorker to Twain and Hawthorne - who has taken America and Europe by storm.

'The sort of blithely sophisticated, loopy humour that might have resulted if Dorothy Parker and James Thurber had had a love child' ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY on BARREL FEVER 'Side-splitting.. Not one of the essays in this new collection failed to crack me up; frequently I was helpless' the NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW on NAKED

David Sedaris recently moved from New York to Paris. Raised in North Carolina, he has worked as a housecleaner and most famously, as a part-time elf for Macy's. Several of his plays have been produced, and his essays are featured regularly on BBC radio and in THE NEW YORKER and ESQUIRE.

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ISBN 13	9780349113906
ISBN 10	0349113904
Title	Me Talk Pretty One Day
Author	David Sedaris
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	2001-01-04
Number of pages	288
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