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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle Brown & Company
ISBN-100316779490
ISBN-139780316779494
eBay Product ID (ePID)779234
Product Key Features
Book TitleNaked
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1997
TopicGeneral, Literary, Form / Essays
GenreBiography & Autobiography, Humor
AuthorDavid Sedaris
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight15.2 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN96-044566
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal818.5/4/07
SynopsisIn 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 in the company of a recently paroled prostitute, this collection of memoirs creates a wickedly incisive portrait of an all-too-familiar world. It takes Sedaris from his humiliating bout with obsessive behavior in A Plague of Tics to the title story, where he is finally forced to face his naked self in the mirrored sunglasses of a lunatic. At this soulful and moving moment, he picks potato chip crumbs from his pubic hair and wonders what it all means. This remarkable journey into his own life follows a path of self-effacement and a lifelong search for identity, leaving him both under suspicion and overdressed.