Naked
by David Sedaris
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Like New
- ISBN 10
- 0349119775
- ISBN 13
- 9780349119779
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Synopsis
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 in the company of a recently paroled prostitute, this collection of memoirs creates a wickedly incisive portrait of an all-too-familiar world. It takes Sedaris from his humiliating bout with obsessive behavior in A Plague of Tics to the title story, where he is finally forced to face his naked self in the mirrored sunglasses of a lunatic. At this soulful and moving moment, he picks potato chip crumbs from his pubic hair and wonders what it all means. This remarkable journey into his own life follows a path of self-effacement and a lifelong search for identity, leaving him both under suspicion and overdressed.
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- Bookseller
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BR18865
- Title
- Naked
- Author
- David Sedaris
- Book Condition
- New Used - Like New
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0349119775
- ISBN 13
- 9780349119779
- Publisher
- ABACUS (LITT)
- Place of Publication
- Altrincham, United Kingdom
- This edition first published
- July 6, 2006
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