Naked
Author | : David Sedaris |
Publisher | : Back Bay Books |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2009-05-04 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780316073622 |
ISBN-13 | : 0316073628 |
Rating | : 4/5 (628 Downloads) |
Download or read book Naked written by David Sedaris and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2009-05-04 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 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.