"Nackt" war erst der Anfang - jetzt kommt die Fortsetzung!
David Sedaris schreibt hier seinen mit dem Erfolgstitel "Nackt" begonnenen "Roman in autobiographischen Geschichten" fort. Noch einmal wirft der Autor einen Blick zurück in die Kindheit. Wir erleben Davids Vater und dessen Jazz-Leidenschaft, gehen mit Klein David zur Logopädin, begleiten den Kunststudenten David zum ersten Mal in den Aktsaal und beobachten, wie aus David "Mr. Sedaris" wird.

Zusatztext A sophisticatedly funny take on modern life. Treat yourself to this book. Informationen zum Autor David Sedaris is the author of fifteen previous books, including, most recently, A Carnival of Snackery , The Best of Me , Calypso and Happy-Go-Lucky . He is a regular contributor to the New Yorker and BBC Radio 4. In 2019, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, the Jonathan Swift Prize for Satire and Humor, and the Terry Southern Prize for Humor. Sedaris lives in Sussex and travels regularly to the US. Klappentext A new collection of humorous pieces from David Sedaris, author of "Barrel Fever" and "Naked", covering subjects such as learning French, restaurants serving "towers" of food, and cashiers with six-inch fingernails. * A brilliant, savage, hilarious new collection of writings from David Sedaris - it's as if Garrison Keillor's evil twin meets Woody Allen Zusammenfassung 'He's like an American Alan Bennett, in that his own fastidiousness becomes the joke, as per the taxi encounter, or his diary entry about waiting interminably in a coffee-bar queue' Guardian review of An Evening with David Sedaris

A sophisticatedly funny take on modern life. Treat yourself to this book.

Vorwort
'He's like an American Alan Bennett, in that his own fastidiousness becomes the joke, as per the taxi encounter, or his diary entry about waiting interminably in a coffee-bar queue' Guardian review of An Evening with David Sedaris

Autorentext

David Sedaris is the author of fifteen previous books, including, most recently, A Carnival of Snackery, The Best of Me, Calypso and Happy-Go-Lucky. He is a regular contributor to the New Yorker and BBC Radio 4. In 2019, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, the Jonathan Swift Prize for Satire and Humor, and the Terry Southern Prize for Humor. Sedaris lives in Sussex and travels regularly to the US.

Klappentext

A new collection of humorous pieces from David Sedaris, author of "Barrel Fever" and "Naked", covering subjects such as learning French, restaurants serving "towers" of food, and cashiers with six-inch fingernails.

Zusammenfassung
'He's like an American Alan Bennett, in that his own fastidiousness becomes the joke, as per the taxi encounter, or his diary entry about waiting interminably in a coffee-bar queue' Guardian review of An Evening with David Sedaris