02107nam a2200289u 4500 183392234 20190501224721.0 ta 080617s2008 nyu 000 0 eng 2007049021 9780316143479 25.99 0316143472 (OCoLC)183392234 DLC DLC BAKER YDXCP UPZ ZS3 C#P BYNN 814/.54 22 814.54 .S447w Sedaris, David When you are engulfed in flames David Sedaris 1st ed New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2008 viii, 323 p. ; 22 cm 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 -- Solution 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 Once again, David Sedaris brings together a collection of essays so uproariously funny and profoundly moving that his legions of fans will fall for him once more. He tests the limits of love when Hugh lances a boil from his backside, and pushes the boundaries of laziness when, finding the water shut off in his house in Normandy, he looks to the water in a vase of fresh cut flowers to fill the coffee machine. From armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds to the awkwardness of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a sleeping fellow passenger on a plane, David Sedaris uses life's most bizarre moments to reach new heights in understanding love and fear, family and strangers. Culminating in a brilliantly funny account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris's sixth essay collection will be avidly anticipated.--From publisher description 14 21661 21661 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ NF 2017-01-13 1 814.54 SEDA 4158 2018-01-25 2017-12-20 25.99 2017-01-13 BOOK 1