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Me Talk Pretty One Day

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By David Sedaris

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On Sale
Jun 5, 2001
Page Count
288 pages
Publisher
Back Bay Books
ISBN-13
9780316776967

Price

$19.99

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$25.99 CAD

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  1. Trade Paperback $19.99 $25.99 CAD
  2. ebook $11.99 $15.99 CAD
  3. Hardcover $36.00 $46.00 CAD
  4. Audiobook Download (Unabridged) $18.99
  5. Audiobook CD (Unabridged) $35.00 $44.00 CAD

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This vibrant collection of expat essays from legendary humorist David Sedaris is a cause for jubiliation.

Sedaris’s move to Paris in the early aughts inspired hilarious pieces, such as “Me Talk Pretty One Day”, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration—”You Cant Kill the Rooster” is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers and cashiers with 6-inch fingernails.

Compared by The New Yorker to Twain and Hawthorne, Sedaris is one of America’s best-loved authors, and his biting essays on living in Paris are some of the funniest he’s ever written. (At last, someone even meaner than the French!) The sort of blithely sophisticated, loopy humour that might have resulted if Dorothy Parker and James Thurber had a love child.

“If you’re looking for some comic relief, look no further than David Sedaris.” ―NPR

Genre:

  • Nonfiction
  • Humor
  • Form
  • Essays

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David Sedaris

About the Author

David Sedaris is the author of the books Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Holidays on Ice, Naked, and Barrel Fever. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and BBC Radio 4. He lives in England.

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