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Me Talk Pretty One Day

Welcome to the wonderful world of America's foremost humorist David Sedaris, where learning French, like life, is littered with idiosyncratic delight. Notify me. Add to Wishlist. His essays about living in Paris are full of piss and vinegar and achingly funny. Treat yourself to this book.

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A humourist par excellence, he can make Woody Allen appear ham-tongued, Oscar Wilde a drag. His sophistication is spiked with self-doubt,and his insouciance has a tremor of the unhinged. Damn enjoyable. That's why it's so good. Absolutely wonderful. Master of the shaggy dog story. A gentle stroll around the absurdities of life, interspersed wih perfectly-aimed poisoned arrows. Don't read this on the bus, you'll find yourself laughing out loud. MAGAZINE 'Observational comedy at its best- Sedaris has a wry and sardonic voice, taking delight in deflating pretensions and reserving special scorn for stupid people and American tourists. Essentially though, his outlook on the world is generous and amiable.

Prettg caustic gift has not deserted him in his fourth book, which mines Byy comedy from his peculiar childhood in North Carolina, his bizarre career path and his move with his lover to France. Though his anarchic inclination to digress is his glory, Sedaris does have a theme in these reminiscences: the inability of humans to communicate.

The title is his rendition in transliterated English of how he and his fellow students of French in Paris mangle the Gallic language. In the essay "Jesus Shaves", he and his classmates from many nations try to convey the concept of Easter to a Moroccan Muslim. Sedaris muses on the disputes between his Protestant mother and his father, a Here Orthodox man whose Easter fell on a different day. Other essays explicate his deep kinship with his eccentric mother and absurd alienation from Me Talk Pretty One Day By David IBM-exec dad: "To me, the greatest mystery of science continues to be that a man could father six children who shared absolutely none of his interests".

Every glimpse we get of Sedaris's family and acquaintances delivers laughs and insights.

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He thwarts his North Carolina speech therapist "for whom the word pen had two syllables" by cleverly avoiding all words with "s" sounds, which Me Talk Pretty One Day By David the lisp she sought to correct. His midget guitar teacher, Mister Mancini, Bh unaware that Sedaris doesn't share his obsession with breasts, and sings "Light My Fire" all wrong--"as if he were a Webelo scout demanding a match". As a remarkably unqualified teacher at the Art Institute of Chicago, Sedaris had his class watch soap operas and assign "guessays" on what would happen in the next day's episode. It all adds up to the most distinctively skewed autobiography since Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia.

David Sedaris recently moved from New York to Paris. Raised in North Carolina, MMe has worked as a housecleaner and most famously, as a part-time elf for Macy's. System by Circle. Toggle navigation Demo Site. Search for books. Start typing to search by keyword, title, author or ISBN. Read article navigation. Product Information. Reviews 'Still keeps me company like a party guest who's been asked to spend the night Book Sale Events.]