| Naked Contributor(s): Sedaris, David (Read by), Sedaris, David (Author), Sedaris, Amy (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1586212230 ISBN-13: 9781586212230 Publisher: Grand Central Publishing OUR PRICE: $22.48 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: October 2001 Annotation: Hip radio comedy fans and theater folks who belong to the cult of Obie-winning playwright/performer Sedaris must kill to get this book. In a series of textured essays, Sedaris takes listeners along on his catastrophic detours through a nudist colony, a fruit-packing plant, his own childhood, and a dozen more of the world's little purgatories. Abridged. 3 CDs. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Humor | Form - Essays |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 4.98" W x 5.84" (0.43 lbs) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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, where 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. |