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Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris
ISBN: 0316776963
ISBN-13: 9780316776967
Format: Paperback
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Summary
David Sedaris, author of NAKED, continues his humorous exploration of himself, focusing on his humorous attempts to learn French after moving to Paris; his topics include restaurants, his quirky dislikes, his career dreams, and the habits of his increasingly eccentric family.
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"[I]f Mr. Sedaris sometimes sounds as though he were making do with leftover material, TALK PRETTY still makes for diverting reading. At the same time this volume shows Mr. Sedaris intermittently trying to step out of his role as curmudgeonly complainer. Though he still whips off the tart put-down with practiced ease...[H]e also shows himself capable, in these pages, of something approaching empathy and introspection....[T]he stronger chapters in this book tend to be the ones that mix satire with sentiment, brazenness with rumination. Those pieces reveal a writer who is capable not only of being funny, but touching, even tender, too." -- Michiko Kakutani
-- New York Times
"Many lines and several of the premises are brilliant, worthy of our best comic essayists [but the] gifted Sedaris has not been hard enough on himself. At the risk of sounding patronizing, I suspect there is a better writer in there than he is as yet willing to let out." -- Jonathan Reynolds
-- New York Times
"The book is laugh-out-loud funny, witty, trenchant and over far too soon." -- Chris Barsanti
-- Book
"The joy of each piece is in the reading itself….Each essay is a delight, and explores the different worlds of family, city, and foreign countries in a consistent voice and rhythm. Some are definitely stronger than others. Some, in fact, are among the best things Sedaris has written…but others come off as comparatively weak."
-- Boston Book Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published date: 2001
Size: 5.5 x 8.25 inches
Weight: 0.55 pounds
Pages: 272
Publisher's Notes
The bestselling author of Naked presents a savagely funny collection of stories, including pieces about his sojourn in Paris, as well as those that have been featured in The New Yorker, Esquire, and on National Public Radio.
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Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Co, 2001. Clean, tight copy with no writing or markings. The spine is not creased. Colorfully illustrated cover. Not an Ex-Library Book. Includes a photograph and a brief biography of the author.. 21st Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. Measures: 5-1/2" x 8-1/2". 272 Pages. ( more information)
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Back Bay Books, 2001-06-05. Very Good. Tight Spine. Sharp corners. Very light corner/edge wear; faint spots on back cover. Top corner of outer pg. edges has several black smudges (as does inside front cover). Text looks great--appears untouched. Clean, bright pages. Nice copy. ( more information)
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SEDARIS, DAVID
Boston, Mass: Back Bay Books, 2000. Later Printing. Paperback. VG CONDITION. ( more information)
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Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Company. Very Good. 2001. Seventh Edition. Trade Paperback. 0316776963 Very good condition,clean and unmarked. Very minor shelf wear. Covers clean and bright, pages and text clean and unmarked. Seventh printing.. ( more information)
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Sedaris, David
New York: Little Brown & Co, 2000. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. Light edgewear, shelfwear. Overall, clean and sound. ( more information)
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Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A: Little Brown & Co, 2001. Soft Cover. Very Good. Cover has edge wear, creases, scratches, rubbed/bent cover/page corners, rubbed spine. Age/sun browning to pages. No writing. Very good. . ISBN: 0316776963 . ( more information)
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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Very Good-. Little Brown & Co; Nyc NY; 2000; 1st Edition; 14th Printing; Self-wraps; NOVEL; Me,Pretty,Sedaris; Minor shelfwear chips ; His most sidesplitting work to date Clean tight copy Pre--Owned VG-/N as issued (Novel) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 272 pages . ( more information)
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Back Bay Books / Little, Brown and Company, 2000. Trade Paperback. Good. Light shelf wear. "Me Talk Pretty One Day contains far more than just the funniest collection of autobiographical essays -- it quite well registers as a manifesto about language itself. Wherever there's a straight line, you can be sure that Sedaris lurks beneath the text, making it jagged with laughter; and just where the fault lines fall, he sits mischievously perched at the epicenter of it all. No medium available to mankind is spared his cultural vision; no family member (even the dynasties of family pets) is forgotten in these pages of sardonic memories of Sedaris's numerous incarnations in North Carolina, Chicago, New York, and France. One essay, punctuated by a conspicuous absence of s's and plurals, introduces the lisping young fifth-grader David 'Thedarith,' who arms himself with a thesaurus, learns every nonsibilant word in the lexicon, eludes his wily speech therapy teacher, and amazes his countrified North Carolina teachers with his out-of-nowhere and man-size vocabulary. By an ironic twist of fate, readers find present-day Sedaris in France, where only now, after all these years, he must cling safely to just plural nouns so as to avoid assigning the wrong genders to French objects. (Never mind that ordering items from the grocer becomes rather expensive.) Even the strictest of grammarians won't be able to look at the parts of speech in the same way after exposing themselves to the linguistic phenomena of Sedarisian humor. Just why is a sandwich masculine, and yet, say, a belt is feminine in the French language? As he stealthily tries to decode French, like a cross between a housewife and a shrewddetective, he earns the contempt of his sadistic French teacher and soon even resorts to listening to American books on tape for secret relief. What David Sedaris has to say about language classes, his brother's gangsta-rap slang, typewriters, computers, audiobooks, movies, and even restaurant menus is sure to unleash upon the world a mad rash of pocket-dictionary-toting nouveau grammarians who bow their heads to a new, inverted word order." ( more information)
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N. Y.: Back Bay Books: A Division of Little, Brown & Company, 2001. Crease on front cover. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. ( more information)
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Boston, Massachusetts: Little Brown & Company, 2001. Trade Paperback. Very Good+/No Jacket as Issued. Light edge wear. No marks to pages. "Sedaris's caustic gift has not deserted him in his fourth book, which mines poignant comedy from his peculiar childhood in North Carolina, his bizarre career path, and his move with his lover to France. Though his anarchic inclination to digress is his glory, Sedaris does have a theme in these reminiscences: the inability of humans to communicate" (Amazon). ISBN: 0-316-77696-3. ( more information)
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Co, 2001. 5.5 x 8.5 trade paperback book. Blue lettering on the light blue and white spine with a green cover. 272 pages. Light wear. Tight binding. Very Good + condition.. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. ( more information)
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Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Company, 2001. Light shelf wear. Great copy with tight binding and clean pages.. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information)
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Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Co, 2001. Looks New - crisp, bright, and unmarked. A very funny book, tales from real life.. Later Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". ( more information)
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Back Bay Books, 2001. Pages unmarked. Covers edgeworn with some creases along edges. Sticker on spine. Binding square & firm.. ISBN: 0316776963. Trade Paperback. Good. Essays Humor. ( more information)
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Sedaris, David
New York: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good. 2001. Paperback. The cover is in good shape with minor shelf wear mainly along the edges and minimal spine creasing. The pages are clean and crisp. ; 272 p. . ( more information)
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Boston: Back Bay Books. Very Good: Spine uncreased. Light hinge crease. Prev. owner's address . label.. 2001. Paperback: Trade PB. ( more information)
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New York, New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2000. First Thus. paperback. Good+/No Jacket. Creasing to front hinge and back upper corner. Some stress creasing to covers. Former store's stamp on fly page. ISBN: 0316776963. ( more information)
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Little, Brown and Co., Boston: 2000. Softcover. Very good condition. Experiences this enjoyable are usually illegal....If wit were measured in people, David Sedaris would be China: His talent is that huge." -Archer Blake, Denver Rocky Mountain News. ISBN: 0316776963. ( more information)
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Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Co, 2001. David Sedaris is also the author of Barrel Fever, Naked, and Holiday's on Ice. He is a regular contributor to Public Radio International's "This American Life".. ISBN: 0316776963. Cloth and Hardboard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. HUMOR FORM ESSAYS SINGLE AUTHOR. ( more information)
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Sedaris, David
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Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Bruce Springsteen: Little Brown & Company, 2001 New copy of this hilarious collection; Humor. Trade Paper. New. ( more information)
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Back Bay Books. Paperback. 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches. Paperback - 2001 - fair condition - ladylisabooks - used books, secondhand books, out of print books, hard to find books, for sale, second-hand books, college books, student books, nonfiction, first edition, exlibrary books sold, signed copies, non-fiction books delivered world wide. 0-316-77696-3.\nIsbn 0316776963.\nDavid Sedaris became a star autobiographer on public radio, onstage in New York, and on bestseller lists, mostly on the strength of "SantaLand Diaries," a scathing, hilarious account of his stint as a Christmas elf at Macy's. (It's in two separate collections, both worth owning, Barrel Fever and the Christmas-themed Holidays on Ice.) Sedaris's caustic gift has not deserted him in his fourth book, which mines poignant comedy from his peculiar childhood in North Carolina, his bizarre career path, and his move with his lover to France. Though his anarchic inclination to digress is his glory, Sedaris does have a theme in these reminiscences: the inability of humans to communicate. The title is his rendition in transliterated English of how he and his fellow students of French in Paris mangle the Gallic language. In the essay "Jesus Shaves," he and his classmates from many nations try to convey the concept of Easter to a Moroccan Muslim. "It is a party for the little boy of God," says one. "Then he be die one day on two... morsels of... lumber," says another. Sedaris muses on the disputes between his Protestant mother and his father, a Greek Orthodox guy whose Easter fell on a different day. Other essays explicate his deep kinship with his eccentric mom and absurd alienation from his IBM-exec dad: "To me, the greatest mystery of science continues to be that a man could father six children who shared absolutely none of his interests." \n Every glimpse we get of Sedaris's family and acquaintances delivers laughs and insights. He thwarts his North Carolina speech therapist ("for whom the word pen had two syllables") by cleverly avoiding all words with s sounds, which reveal the lisp she sought to correct. His midget guitar teacher, Mister Mancini, is unaware that Sedaris doesn't share his obsession with breasts, and sings "Light My Fire" all wrong--"as if he were a Webelo scout demanding a match." As a remarkably unqualified teacher at the Art Institute of Chicago, Sedaris had his class watch soap operas and assign "guessays" on what would happen in the next day's episode. \nIt all adds up to the most distinctively skewed autobiography since Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia. The only possible reason not to read this book is if you'd rather hear the author's intrinsically funny speaking voice narrating his story. In that case, get Me Talk Pretty One Day on audio. ( more information)
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Boston: Little Brown, 2001. Light rubbing, bumping and shelfwear. Spine straight and uncreased. Interior tight and unmarked. Inscribed on half-title "You are a winner!!! Sandi ??????? AKA David Sedaris".. Signed by Author. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information)
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Company, 2001. First Edition ~ VERY GOOD ~ Soft Cover ~ Clean, tight copy. Thank you for considering my book.~ ~ ~ ~ ESSAYS SINGLE AUTHOR HUMOR FORM LITERARY COLLECTIONS. ISBN: 0316776963. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ESSAYS SINGLE AUTHOR HUMOR FORM LITERARY COLLECTIONS. ( more information)
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