The Best of Me

ISBN: 1549139703

Author: Sedaris, David

Condition: New

Genius It is miraculous to read these pieces You must read The Best of Me. -Andrew Sean Greer, New York Times Book ReviewDavid Sedariss best stories and essays, spanning his remarkable career-as selected and read by the author himself. Featuring fresh and classic recordings, including a new essay and an interview exclusive to the audiobook.A New York Times Book Review Editors ChoiceA CNN and Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the MonthFor 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 listen 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 travelers lap. He drowns a mouse in a bucket, struggles to say give it to me in five languages, and hand-feeds a carnivorous bird.But if all you expect to find in Sedariss work is the deft and sharply observed comedy for which he became renowned, you may be surprised to discover that his words bring more warmth than mockery, more fellow-feeling than derision. Nowhere is this clearer than in his writing about his loved ones. In these essays, Sedaris explores falling in love and staying together, recognizing his own aging not in the mirror but in the faces of his siblings, losing one parent and coming to terms-at long last-with the other.Taken together, the performances in TheBest of Me reveal the wonder and delight Sedaris takes in the surprises life brings him. No experience, he sees, is quite as he expected-its often harder, more fraught, and certainly weirder-but sometimes it is also much richer and more wonderful.Full of joy, generosity, and the incisive humor that has led David Sedaris to be called the funniest man alive (Time Out New York), The Best of Me spans a career spent watching and learning and laughing-quite often at himself-and invites listeners deep into the world of one of the most brilliant and original writers of our time.The Best of Me AUDIOBOOK TRACK LISTINGIntroduction (new recording)From Barrel Fever 1994Glens Homophobia Newsletter Vol. 3, No. 2.From Holidays on Ice 1994Front Row Center with Thaddeus Bristol (new recording)Christmas Means Giving (new recording)From Naked 1997the incomplete quad (new recording)From the New YorkerGirl Crazy (new recording)Card Wired (new recording)How to Spend the Budget Surplus (new recording)From Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000You Cant Kill the Rooster (new recording)Me Talk Pretty One Day (new recording)Jesus Shaves (new recording)From the New YorkerDog Days (new recording)From Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Demin 2004Us and ThemLet It SnowThe Ship ShapeThe Girl Next DoorRepeat After MeSix to Eight Black Men (live recording)PossessionNuit of the Living DeadFrom When You Are Engulfed in Flames 2008Solution to Saturdays Puzzle (live recording)The UnderstudyTown and Country (live recording)In the Waiting Room (live recording)From The New YorkerUndecidedFrom Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk 2010The Cat and the Baboon (live recording)The Motherless Bear (new recording)The Faithful Setter (new recording)From Lets Explore Diabetes with Owls 2013Dentists Without Borders (live recording)Memory LapsThink Differenter (new recording)LoggerheadsIf I Ruled the WorldEasy, TigerLaugh, Kookaburra (live recording)Just a Quick e-MailA Guy Walks into a Bar CarStanding By (live recording)Understanding Understanding OwlsFrom Calypso 2019Now We Are FiveA House DividedThe Perfect FitLeviathanA Modest ProposalWhy Arent You Laughing?The Spirit WorldFrom The New Yorker:Unbuttoned (new recording)Aud