Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris ISBN: 0-316-14346-4 Publisher: Little, Brown Pub. Date: 01 June, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.28 (25 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!
Comment: I just finished Mr. Sedaris' new book and I thoroughly enjoyed it! I simply love reading his work. His writing is simple, detailed, hysterically funny, sad, moving, loving...the list goes on and on.
One minute you will be laughing out loud to the point where you have to put the book down for a minute (I know I did) and in the next you will undoubtedly feel his writing tugging at your heart (it definitely tugged at mine).
Mr. Sedaris moves from the absurd to the self-deprecating to the hysterically funny to the sad to the inspired to the poignant with such thoughtful nuance that it's difficult not to fall under his spell.
Highly recommended!
Rating: 4
Summary: Dress your bookshelf with Sedaris!
Comment: While you might not laugh as hard as you did while reading "Me talk Pretty One Day", guaranteed you will at the very least have a good laugh with yourself over the pages of Dress your Fam.
Sedaris is back! With 27 new essays he cleverly addresses mundane and ordinary events in his life, twisting them into smart tales of family, friends, and life's annoyances. In "Possession" Sedaris falls in love with the former home of Anne Frank and fantasizes about moving in. "Rooster at the Hitchin' Post" briefly explores the life and times of Sedaris' younger brother...his wedding in particular.
Hilarious, at times touching but never dull, Sedaris has again made short non-fiction something worth staying up for. :D
Rating: 5
Summary: Edgy Humor
Comment: It's apparent that David Sedaris fans are very loyal and will not want to hear anything that sounds like criticism of their favorite writer. So let me say up front that I have been an enthusiastic fan since I first heard an abridged reading of SantaLand Diaries on NPR several years ago. I loved the unabridged and somewhat edgier version even more. I have enjoyed every one of his essay collections. His delivery, written and spoken, is unique. He is among the finest essayists writing today.
On the other hand, I am no Sedarista. While some of his pieces are funny or touching or thoughtful or odd, others are a bit creepy. I first read The Girl Next Door in The New Yorker and it was disturbing, not only because of the strange family he describes, but because of his own behavior. It was no less disturbing a second time around.
All but one of the essays in this collection have appeared before, in magazines or on radio. The single essay that seems to be newly published here is Chicken in the Henhouse, funny in places, but it left me uneasy in the same way that The Girl Next Door did.
These essays have Sedaris's family as their theme. Apparently the family member who is most comfortable in his own skin is his younger brother, Paul, a Southern redneck who surrounds himself with clutter and dogs. Sedaris never mentions that his sister Amy is also a writer. There are funny lines and conversations, but I wouldn't categorize this as a humor collection. His previous collections have included mainstream funny essays with more serious and unsettling pieces. This collection contains nothing like SantaLand Diaries or Me Talk Pretty One Day and Jesus Shaves, the fabulous essays about the trials of learning French, and trying to explain, with limited vocabulary, why an egg-laying bunny is the symbol of Easter in America. The pieces in Dress Your Family are a little too honest and revealing to be comfortably funny.
But I read every word. Sedaris's writing is clean and spare. He doesn't waste any words. These essays, as effortless as they read, must have required merciless editing on Sedaris's part to remove every unnecessary word, and to make every phrase just the right one.
Which is why I am still puzzling over the title. There is no essay called Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, nor is there any reference to corduroy or denim. Perhaps it has to do with the French origin of the words? Maybe the reason is so obvious that when someone tells me what it means, I'll smack my forehead and feel like a dope. But meanwhile, I'm stumped.
 |
Title: David Sedaris Live at Carnegie Hall by David Sedaris ISBN: 1586215647 Publisher: Little, Brown Adult Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.98 |
 |
Title: Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris ISBN: 0316776963 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 05 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
 |
Title: Holidays on Ice : Stories by David Sedaris ISBN: 0316779237 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
 |
Title: The Book of Liz by David Sedaris, Amy Sedaris ISBN: 0822218275 Publisher: Not Avail Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
 |
Title: Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss ISBN: 1592400876 Publisher: Gotham Pub. Date: 12 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
