Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays: 1 - Softcover

Sedaris, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316779423 ISBN 13: 9780316779425

Publisher: Little, Brown & Company, 1995

Synopsis

In David Sedaris's world no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Liebowitz, and the National Enquirer, Sedaris's collection of stories and essays is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban dad saves money by performing home surgery; a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a bitter Santa abuses the elves; a teenage suicide tries to incite a lynch mob at her funeral.

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Review:

I don't very often find myself moved by a book to emit loud noises in public, but when I first read David Sedaris's essays and short stories, they made me laugh so hard I had to stop taking them on the tube. All his collections are good but 'Barrel Fever (is the best')

#NAME? ('A satirical brazenness that holds up next to Twain and Nathaneal West')

New YORKER ('David and Amy Sedaris have a deadpan delivery as ironic as the words they read. The two of them create a nuclear barrage of humour you could never replicate by reading this material on your own')

BOSTON Globe

Book Description:

*A collection of personal essays - surprising, disarming, heartbreakingly funny - from the #1 bestselling writer Time named America's Favorite Humorist.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0316779423
• ISBN 13: 9780316779425
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196