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Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003 - 2020 by David Sedaris
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biographies | Series: Language Acts and Worldm Ser.
For forty years, David Sedaris has kept a diary in which he records everything that captures his attention-overheard comments, salacious gossip, soap opera plot twists, secrets confided by total strangers. These observations are the source code for his finest work, and through them he has honed his cunn ...Show more
A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries: Volume Two by David Sedaris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it. If it's navel-gazing you're after, you've come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observations turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between t ...Show more
Calypso by David Sedaris
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Category: Biographies
'Unquestionably the king of comic writing . . . Calypso is both funnier and more heartbreaking than pretty much anything out there' Hadley Freeman, Guardian If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. ...Show more
Calypso by David Sedaris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Unquestionably the king of comic writing . . . Calypso is both funnier and more heartbreaking than pretty much anything out there' Hadley Freeman, Guardian A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you ...Show more
Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
David Sedaris returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso. Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper and wearing a mask - or not - was a decision mostly made on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy Go Lucky opens, ...Show more
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
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Category: Biographies
Welcome to the wonderful world of America's foremost humorist David Sedaris, where learning French, like life, is littered with idiosyncratic delight . . . 'The Italian was attempting to answer the teacher's latest question when the Moroccan student interrupted, shouting, "Excuse me, but what's an Easte ...Show more
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Hachette Essentials) by David Sedaris
$16.99 AUD
Category: Biographies | Series: HACHETTE ESSENTIALS
A hilarious collection of essays from 'the premier observer of our world and its weirdnesses,' New York Times bestselling author David Sedaris (Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt) Anyone who has heard David Sedaris speaking live or on the radio will tell you that a collection from him is cause ...Show more
Naked by David Sedaris
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Category: Biographies
In Naked, David Sedaris's message alternately rendered in Fakespeare, Italian, Spanish, and pidgin Greek is the same: pay attention to me. Whether he's taking to the road with a thieving quadriplegic, sorting out the fancy from the extra-fancy in a bleak fruit-packing factory, or celebrating Christmas i ...Show more
Theft by Finding: Diaries Vol 1 by David Sedaris
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Category: Biographies
'He's like an American Alan Bennett, in that his own fastidiousness becomes the joke, as per the taxi encounter, or his diary entry about waiting interminably in a coffee-bar queue' Brian Logan, Guardian review of An Evening with David Sedaris. The point is to find out who you are and to be true to th ...Show more
Theft by Finding: Diaries: Volume One by David Sedaris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
David Sedaris tells all in a book that is, literally, a lifetime in the making.For forty years, David Sedaris has kept a diary in which he records everything that captures his attention-overheard comments, salacious gossip, soap opera plot twists, secrets confided by total strangers. These observations ...Show more
When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
$19.98 AUD
Category: Biographies
"David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book. Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the w ...Show more
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