David Sedaris

No one renders the pathos, chaos, and impossible variety of daily encounters like David Sedaris. On every subject, he is bruisingly painful and tenderly affectionate. Sedaris is unique in American writing, and these readings of his own work are highly skilled performances. This new collection will be eagerly anticipated by his ever-growing crowd of devoted fans.

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New York Times

Sardonic, funny, and wry, but at the same time there is a new strain of introspection that makes for a book with more emotional resonance... A Chekhovian brand of comedy

Sunday Times

Like an updated Thurber: domestic, laconic, slightly warped but never bitter, and extremely funny

Guardian

So often Sedaris's phrasing is beautiful in its piquancy and minimalism... His life is extraordinary in so many ways - the drug addiction, the eccentric family, the crazy jobs, the fame, the globetrotting - but one of the more unlikely achievements here is in making it all seem quite ordinary. Ultimately, his masterstroke is in acting as a bystander in his own story

Radio Times

He makes me laugh so much. In an era when US satire is outpacing our own he's a sharp, humane and hilarious voice that never fails to make you smile - and sometimes weep. Apparently effortless humour is difficult, and precious. He's the real thing

Mail on Sunday

A deadpan, darkly comical portrait of the American underbelly . . . Sedaris shares something of [Alan] Bennett's detached curiosity, and they both have a thirst for amusement

Daily Telegraph

David Sedaris spins both banalities (children playing in snow) and bizarreries (an erotic vacuuming service) into perfectly tuned comic essays

The Times

He has taken out some walls in his head, rearranged his mental furniture, and thrown open the property to the public as the house of mirth... Did I also say that it's roll-on-the-floor funny?

Observer

Sedaris is a man of many surprises, with an unusual and inspiring store cupboard of stories and anecdotes that range from his childhood misdemeanours to his job as a cleaner. This latest book is a masterpiece . . . Not only does he possess a cracking sense of humour and literary style, but he excels as the butt of his own jokes. This is a man who could capture your heart and lift your spirits while reading out the ingredients of a rice cake

Times Literary Supplement

A charming, humorous book . . . These are scenes of family life at its best, written with clarity but also with great affection, through which the character of the author emerges, watchful, self-mocking and full of understanding

If you haven't come across David Sedaris, get in quick before over-exposure sucks him dry

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