Happy go lucky book reviews6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() He is the American Alan Bennett - or would be, if Bennett had a history of serious substance abuse and a higher tolerance for sick humour ( Times Literary Supplement) Ultimately, his masterstroke is in acting as a bystander in his own story ( Book of the Day, Guardian) So often Sedaris's phrasing is beautiful in its piquancy and minimalism.His life is extraordinary in so many ways - the drug addiction, the eccentric family, the crazy jobs, the fame, the globetrotting - but one of the more unlikely achievements here is in making it all seem quite ordinary. ![]() ![]() ![]() ( Daily Telegraph, Best Books Under the Sun, Summer 2017) This first of two volumes of his copious diaries takes us from 1977 to 2002, and sees him grow from a despondentĢ1-year-old in menial jobs into the man recognised as possibly the best humorist of the 2000s There isn't a dull word among these pages (India Knight Sunday Times)Ĭould there be a more delightful American import than the memoirist David Sedaris? Not since the peanut butter and jelly sandwich have we inherited something so sweet and comforting yet so wickedly naughty ( The Times) The writing here is funnier, (even) sharper. The latest installment from always funny, sometimes bizarre comic David Sedaris. ![]()
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