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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim: Summary and book reviews of Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris, plus links to an excerpt from Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim and a biography of David Sedaris.
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
by
David Sedaris
Hardcover: Jun 2004,
272 pages.
Paperback: May 2005,
272 pages.
The new, eagerly awaited collection of personal essays from the author of the #1 bestseller Me Talk Pretty One Day.
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 traveler.
He eats a hamburger.
He has his blood sugar tested.
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. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim is another unforgettable collection from one of the wittiest and most original writers at work today.
Book Reviews
Publishers Weekly
In his latest collection, Sedaris has found his heart....what emerges is the deepest kind of humor, the human comedy.
Booklist - Donna Seaman
Sedaris' piquant essays are as meticulously honed and precisely timed as the best stand-up comic routines, which is, of course, what they are.
Kirkus Reviews
Sedaris's sense of life's absurdity is on full, fine display, as is his emotional body armor. Fortunately, he has plenty of both.
The New Yorker
Sedaris has a satirical brazenness that holds up next to Twain and Nathanael West.
O Magazine
[David Sedaris] has come up with a sophisticated, wildly vibrant valentine of a collection that ultimately pays tribute to the convoluted connections between people...
Bookpage
As in his previous collections.... Sedaris' tales crackle with the quirkiness that has become his cachet, declares Bookpage, ....readers will find themselves in stitches over [his] delirious accounts.
Time Out New York
No one walks the tightrope between hilarity and poignancy quite like Sedaris
Wall Street Journal
Sedaris' book is a Sunnier alternative to the best of this season's weighty biographies and novels.
Denver Rocky Mountain News
If wit were measured in people, David Sedaris would be China His talent is that huge.
Boston Book Review
David Sedaris's brilliance resides in a capacity to surprise, associate, and dissociate, and the result is something like watching lightning strike in slow motion. . . . One of the most shameless, acid, vaulting wits on planet earth.
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