false 49532094 1413429 1044355 0316143472 9780316143479 4831 <![CDATA[When You Are Engulfed in Flames]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255615795m/1044355.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255615795s/1044355.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1044355.When_You_Are_Engulfed_in_Flames 3.87 22040 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 water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from the French countryside to a hilariously uncomfortable memory of buying drugs in a mobile home in rural <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">North Carolina</st1:State></st1:place>. In essay after essay, Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life-having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger on a plane or armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds-to the most deeply resonant human truths. Culminating in a brilliant account of his venture to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Tokyo</st1:City></st1:place> in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris's sixth essay collection is a new masterpiece of comic writing from "a writer worth treasuring" (Seattle Times).

Praise for When You Are Engulfed in Flames:

"Older, wiser, smarter and meaner, Sedaris...defies the odds once again by delivering an intelligent take on the banalities of an absurd life." --Kirkus Reviews

This latest collection proves that not only does Sedaris still have it, but he's also getting better....Sedaris's best stuff will still--after all this time--move, surprise, and entertain." --Booklist

Table of Contents:

It's Catching
Keeping Up
The Understudy
This Old House
Buddy, Can You Spare a Tie?
Road Trips
What I Learned
That's Amore
The Monster Mash
In the Waiting Room
Solutions to Saturday's Puzzle
Adult Figures Charging Toward a Concrete Toadstool
Memento Mori
All the Beauty You Will Ever Need
Town and Country
Aerial
The Man in the Hut
Of Mice and Men
April in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Paris</st1:place></st1:City>
Crybaby
<st1:place w:st="on">Old Faithful</st1:place>
The Smoking Section



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