Naked
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3.8 • 24 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
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 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 unmistakably hilarious voice—without doubt one of the freshest in American writing.
“If you’re looking for some comic relief, look no further than David Sedaris.” ―NPR
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Everyone’s youth overflows with awkward experiences. But David Sedaris’ acidic wit makes him uniquely qualified to wring hilarious stories out of his early humiliations—and he’s courageous enough to look foolish for the cause. Whether he’s recalling his old-world grandmother’s eccentricities, his history of compulsive behavior, or his early anxieties about being gay, Sedaris leavens his bone-dry sarcasm with just a dash of poignancy. When we finally recovered from laughing, we found ourselves a little bit moved, too.
