David Sedaris - Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim Books

- As the New York Times puts it, Sedans is the closest thing the literary world has these days to a rock star. - This immediate #1 hardcover bestseller-- currently in its 14th week on the New York Times list, with nearly 700,000 copies in print--propelled the paperback editions of Sedaris s Me Talk Pretty One Day and Naked back onto national bestseller lists.- David Sedaris s hooks have sold more man three million copies and have topped bestseller lists around the world.

It all sounds so normal, doesn't it?In his newest collection of essays, David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface. His world is alive with obscure desires and hidden motives - a world where forgiveness is automatic and an argument can be the highest form of love. In Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Sedaris returns to his deliriously twisted domain: hilarious childhood dramas infused with melancholy; the gulf of misunderstanding that exists between people of different nations or members of the same family; and the poignant divide between one's best hopes and most common deeds. The family characters his readers love are all here, as well as the unique terrain they inhabit, strewn with comic landmines. "The Rooster" is back, and getting married in the funniest wedding ever described. David attends a slumber party and gets the upper hand in a unique version of strip poker. "Rubber or plastic?" The strangest questions can tear people apart. A ...