Naked
Sedaris, David1997
Book
In Naked, David Sedaris's message - alternately rendered in "Fakespeare," Italian, Spanish, and pidgin Greek - is the same: pay attention to me. 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. 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.
Main title:
Naked / David Sedaris.
Author:
Work:
Edition:
1st ed.
Imprint:
Boston : Little, Brown and Co., c1997.
Collation:
viii, 291 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
"Paperback ed. published in 1998 with ISBN 0316777730."
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:
031677949097803167777350316777730 (pbk)
Dewey class:
818.5402B817.54
LC class:
PS3569.E314
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
107216
Electronic access:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library at the Dock | -Biography | BIOG 817.54 SEDA | Available |