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Me talk pretty one day / David Sedaris.
LIBRA PS3569.E314 M4 2001 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sedaris, David, author.
- Series:
- Book club kit.
- Book club kit
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Americans--France--Paris--Humor.
- Americans.
- Paris (France)--Humor.
- Paris (France).
- France--Paris.
- Wit and Humor as Topic.
- Medical Subjects:
- Wit and Humor as Topic.
- Genre:
- Miscellaneous fiction.
- Humor.
- Personal narratives.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 272 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First Back Bay paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston [Mass.] : Back Bay Books, 2001.
- Summary:
- A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration. You Cant 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 and cashiers with 6-inch fingernails.
- In a collection of essays, observations, and commentaries, the humorist describes his recent move to Paris, life as an American in Paris, his struggle to learn French, his family, and restaurant meals.
- Contents:
- Go Carolina
- Giant dreams, midget abilities
- Genetic engineering
- Twelve moments in the life of the artist
- You can't kill the rooster
- The youth in Asia
- The learning curve
- Big boy
- The great leap forward
- Today's special
- City of angels
- A shiner like a diamond
- Nutcracker.com
- See you again yesterday
- Me talk pretty one day
- Jesus shaves
- The tapeworm is in
- Make that a double
- Remembering my childhood on the continent of Africa
- 21 down
- The city of light in the dark
- I pledge allegiance to the bag
- Picka Pocketoni
- I almost saw this girl get killed
- Smart guy
- The late show
- I'll eat what he's wearing.
- Notes:
- "June 2001"--Title page verso.
- Originally published as hbk.: Boston : Little, Brown & Co., ©2000.
- Lambda Literary Awards - Humor, Winner, 2001
- ISBN:
- 0316776963
- 9780316776967
- OCLC:
- 47029978
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