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A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries: Volume Two by David Sedaris
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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
Barrel Fever by David Sedaris
29.99 NZD
Category: Humour
'Barrel Fever' is a collection of personal essays, surprising, disarming, and funny, from David Sedaris, who Time named America's Favorite Humorist.
Calypso by David Sedaris
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
'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
Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003 - 2020 by David Sedaris
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | 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
Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim by David Sedaris
28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveller. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn't ...Show more
Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
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, h ...Show more
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
29.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favorites as the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters ("Us and Them"); the difficulti ...Show more
Naked by David Sedaris
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: General Adult
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
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Wicked Bestiary - Special Edition by DAVID SEDARIS
29.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
This collection of sharply observed animal-themed tales is a delight, told with David Sedaris's trademark blend of hilarity and goodnaturedness. Though the characters may not be human, the situations in these stories bear an uncanny resemblance to the insanity of our own everyday interactions. In 'The T ...Show more
The Santaland Diaries by DAVID SEDARIS
27.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Santaland Diaries collects six of David Sedaris's most profound Christmas stories into one slender volume perfect for use as a last-minute coaster or ice-scraper. This drinking man's companion can be enjoyed by the warmth of a raging fire, the glow of a brilliantly decorated tree, or even in the back se ...Show more
Theft by Finding: Diaries Vol 1 by David Sedaris
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'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
When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
"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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