Naked / David Sedaris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sedaris, David.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sedaris, David.

Humorists, American--20th century--Biography.

Humorists, American.

United States--Social life and customs--20th century--Humor.

United States.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Biographies.

Humor.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 291 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Little, Brown and Co., [1997]

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0316779490

OCLC:

35741397