Showing When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris

Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 2009-5-1 Pages: 310 Publisher: Little Brown David Sedariss remarkable ability to uncover the hilariousabsurdity teeming just below the surface of everyday life iselevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in thisnew book of stories Sedaris proceeds. from bizarre conundrums ofdaily life - the etiquette of having a lozenge fall from your mouthinto the lap of a fellow passenger or how to soundproof yourwindows with LP covers against neurotic songbirds -. to the mostdeeply resonant human truths Taking in the parasitic worm thatonce lived in his mother-in-laws leg. an encounter with a dingoand the purchase of a human skeleton. and culminating in abrilliant account of his attempt to quit smoking - in Tokyo - DavidSedariss sixth story collection is a fresh masterpiece of comicwriting.