The Best of Me
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 432
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- EAN: 9780349144603
- Utgivelsesår: 2021
- Bidragsyter: Sedaris, David
What could be a more tempting Christmas gift than a compendium of David Sedaris''s best stories, selected by the author himself? From a spectacular career spanning almost three decades, these stories have become modern classics and are now for the first time collected in one volume.
For more than twenty-five years, David Sedaris has been carving out a unique literary space, virtually creating his own genre. A Sedaris story may seem confessional, but is also highly attuned to the world outside. It opens our eyes to what is at absurd and moving about our daily existence. And it is almost impossible to read without laughing.
Now, for the first time collected in one volume, the author brings us his funniest and most memorable work. In these stories, Sedaris shops for rare taxidermy, hitchhikes with a lady quadriplegic, and spits a lozenge into a fellow traveler''s lap. He drowns a mouse in a bucket, struggles to say ''give it to me'' in five languages and hand-feed