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Calypso / David Sedaris.
Van Pelt Library PS3569.E314 A6 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sedaris, David, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sedaris, David--Anecdotes.
- Sedaris, David.
- Aging--Anecdotes.
- Aging.
- Mortality--Psychological aspects.
- Mortality.
- Aging--Humor.
- Psychological aspects.
- American wit and humor.
- Genre:
- Humor.
- Essays.
- Anecdotes.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 259 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
- Summary:
- When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, David Sedaris envisions long, relaxing vacations spent playing board games and lounging in the sun with those he loves most. And life at the Sea Section, as he names the vacation home, is exactly as idyllic as he imagined, except for one tiny, vexing realization: it's impossible to take a vacation from yourself. Sedaris sets his powers of observation toward middle age and mortality, that vertiginous moment when your own body betrays you and you realize that the story of your life is made up of more past than future.
- Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality.
- Contents:
- Company man
- Now we are five
- Little guy
- Stepping out
- House divided
- Perfect fit
- Leviathan
- Your English is so good
- Calypso
- Modest proposal
- Silent treatment
- Untamed
- One(s) who got away
- Sorry
- Boo-hooey
- Number of the reasons I've been depressed lately
- Why aren't you laughing?
- I'm still standing
- Spirit world
- And while you're up there, check on my prostate
- Comey memo.
- A house divided
- The perfect fit
- A modest proposal
- The silent treatment
- The one(s) who got away
- A number of the reasons I've been depressed lately
- The spirit world
- The Comey memo.
- Notes:
- "May 2018"--Title page verso.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Nichols fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780316392389
- 0316392383
- 9781408707821
- 1408707829
- OCLC:
- 992225285
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