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02546aam a2200241 i 4500 001 9AA261E06F8711ECBB3FC45856ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220107010022 007 u 008 211028s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 0316242403 020 $a 9780316242400 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Sedaris, David. 245 14 $a The best of me / $c David Sedaris. 264 1 $a New York : $b Back Bay Books, $c 2020. 300 $a 388 pages ; $c 23 cm. 520 $a For more than 25 years, David Sedaris has been carving out a unique literary space, virtually creating his own genre. A Sedaris story may seem confessional, but is also highly attuned to the world outside. It opens our eyes to what is at absurd and moving about our daily existence. And it is almost impossible to listen without laughing. Now, for the first time collected in one volume, the author brings us his funniest and most memorable work. In these stories, Sedaris shops for rare taxidermy, hitchhikes with a lady quadriplegic, and spits a lozenge into a fellow travelerâs lap. He drowns a mouse in a bucket, struggles to say âgive it to meâ in five languages, and hand-feeds a carnivorous bird. But if all you expect to find in Sedarisâs work is the deft and sharply observed comedy for which he became renowned, you may be surprised to discover that his words bring more warmth than mockery, more fellow-feeling than derision. Nowhere is this clearer than in his writing about his loved ones. In these essays, Sedaris explores falling in love and staying together, recognizing his own aging not in the mirror but in the faces of his siblings, losing one parent and coming to terms - at long last - with the other. Taken together, the performances in The Best of Me reveal the wonder and delight Sedaris takes in the surprises life brings him. No experience, he sees, is quite as he expected - itâs often harder, more fraught, and certainly weirder - but sometimes it is also much richer and more wonderful. Full of joy, generosity, and the incisive humor that has led David Sedaris to be called âthe funniest man aliveâ (Time Out New York), The Best of Me spans a career spent watching and learning and laughing - quite often at himself - and invites listeners deep into the world of one of the most brilliant and original writers of our time. 541 $d 20211106. 650 $a Essays. 941 $a 1 952 $l YGPC162 $d 20220107011823.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9AA261E06F8711ECBB3FC45856ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search