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When You Are Engulfed in Flames | 
| Author: David Sedaris
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  146 reviews
Sales Rank: 10
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.7 x 1.2
ISBN: 0316143472
Dewey Decimal Number: 814.54
EAN: 9780316143479
ASIN: 0316143472
Publication Date: June 3, 2008
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Product Description
"David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book.
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 essay after essay, 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 essay collection is a new masterpiece of comic writing from "a writer worth treasuring" (Seattle Times).
Praise for When You Are Engulfed in Flames:
"Older, wiser, smarter and meaner, Sedaris...defies the odds once again by delivering an intelligent take on the banalities of an absurd life." --Kirkus Reviews
This latest collection proves that not only does Sedaris still have it, but he's also getting better....Sedaris's best stuff will still--after all this time--move, surprise, and entertain." --Booklist
Table of Contents:
It's Catching
Keeping Up
The Understudy
This Old House
Buddy, Can You Spare a Tie?
Road Trips
What I Learned
That's Amore
The Monster Mash
In the Waiting Room
Solutions to Saturday's Puzzle
Adult Figures Charging Toward a Concrete Toadstool
Memento Mori
All the Beauty You Will Ever Need
Town and Country
Aerial
The Man in the Hut
Of Mice and Men
April in Paris
Crybaby
Old Faithful
The Smoking Section
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| Customer Reviews: Read 141 more reviews...
 David Sedaris is always funny July 19, 2008
and this book is no exception. I enjoyed "When you are Engulfed in Flames" as much as "Me Talk Pretty One Day" and "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim." Sedaris is a master of the fish out of water story, with most of engulfed taking place in Japan. The book flows well except for one or two chapters that are unrelated short stories. I'm not a fan of Sedaris' writing when he strays from his own life stories. The only minor issue I had with the book is that I received the large print version. I was on the list for first available copies so maybe the large print version came out first?
Waaay to funny July 19, 2008
David Sedaris has the knack for turning something typical into something hysterical. I read a little bit of this on a flight and I am sure the other people on the plane thought I was crazy laughing out loud!
 Not his best work July 19, 2008
I was hoping for more. After reading his great work in "Dress Your Family...", "Naked", and "Holidays on Ice," I was expecting great things from this new book. I was sorely disappointed. Not only are the stories not funny, they are just plain nonsensically bad. I understand that there is a theme of death because part of the book is to be about how Sedaris battled quitting smoking, unfortunately, Sedaris doesn't make death funny. Many of the stories, while they have a possible funny side to them, seem like they are all half-stories and he's put two stories together so that he has enough pages for 1 short story. And, unlike his previous work, none of the stories are memorable. Again, I was hoping for more and was really disappointed. For his better work that I highly recommend, try anything else he's written.
laugh till you cry July 18, 2008
I have been reading this book every night since I got it last week. What a way to fall asleep - giddy and high on life. Sedaris brings awareness to all of us with humor ; I have to bring a box of tissues to bed as I laugh so hard I cry! I am sad to think I am almost to the end of this delightful look at our human connectedness. I swear Sedaris and I are married to the same man! When not laugh out loud funny - it is spiritually relevant and touching - a gem.
Jennifer Oakland, CA.
 When You Are Engulfed In Flames July 18, 2008
Wonderful flights of fancy by David Sedaris, writer of Barrel Fever. As with all Mr. Sedaris' books, the reader finds jaw-dropping prose and a chance to laugh out loud, a rare occurrence nowadays.
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