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This memoir will appeal to readers who enjoy sharp, unconventional humour and personal storytelling that balances comedy with emotional depth. Fans of candid, reflective autobiographies and works by authors like Sedaris will find Naked particularly engaging.
The author recounts hitchhiking across the country with an odd cast of quadriplegics and deadbeats, working as a migrant worker in North Carolina, and other adventures.
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In Naked, David Sedaris's message—alternately rendered in "Fakespeare," Italian, Spanish, and pidgin Greek—is the same: pay attention to me.
Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview—a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable.
A tart-tongued mother does dead-on imitations of her young son's nervous tics, much to the great amusement of his teachers; a stint of Kerouackian wandering is undertaken (of course!) with a quadriplegic companion; a family gathers for a wedding in the face of imminent death. Through it all is Sedaris's unmistakable voice, without doubt one of the freshest in American writing.
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ISBN: 9780316777735
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 June 1998
Country: United States
Imprint: Little, Brown & Company
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 140.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 318g
Pages: 291
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