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Me Talk Pretty One Day

Me Talk Pretty One Day

Sedaris, David

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Literary FiguresHumor

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 0316776963
ISBN13: 9780316776967
Publisher: Little, Brown Paperbacks
Published: Jun 5 2001
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
Awards: Thurber Prize for American Humor
This vibrant collection of expat essays from legendary humorist David Sedaris is a cause for jubiliation.

Sedaris's move to Paris in the early aughts inspired hilarious pieces, such as Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration--You Cant Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers and cashiers with 6-inch fingernails.

Compared by The New Yorker to Twain and Hawthorne, Sedaris is one of America's best-loved authors, and his biting essays on living in Paris are some of the funniest he's ever written. (At last, someone even meaner than the French!) The sort of blithely sophisticated, loopy humour that might have resulted if Dorothy Parker and James Thurber had a love child.

If you're looking for some comic relief, look no further than David Sedaris. ―NPR

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