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Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris!
In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview-a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable.
A tart-tongued mother does dead-on imitations of her young son's nervous tics to the great amusement of his teachers; a stint of Kerouackian wandering is undertaken (of course!) with a quadriplegic companion; a family gathers for a wedding in the face of imminent death.
Through it all is Sedaris's unmistakably hilarious voice—without doubt one of the freshest in American writing.
“If you’re looking for some comic relief, look no further than David Sedaris.” ―NPR
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From WikiquoteBecause I was lazy, I'd adopted the philosophy that things just happen.
that's the beauty of an art school: as long as you can pay the tuition, they will never, even in the gentlest way, suggest that you have no talent.
'If I had one wish, I'd wish for an unlimited amount of wishes,' I said. She shook her head in a way that suggested she had heard this answer countless times before. 'Don't get greedy on me, Dave, you only get one wish.'
'It is ironic that nudists are just about the last people you'd ever want to see naked.
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