David Sedariss ability to transform the mortification of everyday life intowildly entertaining art The Christian Science Monitor is elevated towilder and more e... » 

David Sedariss ability to transform the mortification of everyday life intowildly entertaining art The Christian Science Monitor is elevated towilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book.Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off David considers using thewater in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from theFrench countryside to a hilariously uncomfortable memory of buying drugs in amobile home in rural North Carolina. In essay after essay Sedaris proceedsfrom bizarre conundrums of daily lifehaving a lozenge fall from your mouthinto the lap of a fellow passenger on a plane or armoring the windows with LPcovers to protect the house from neurotic songbirdsto the most deeply resonanthuman truths. Culminating in a brilliant account of his venture to Tokyo inorder to quit smoking David Sedariss sixth essay collection is a newmasterpiece of comic writing from a writer worth treasuring SeattleTimes. Praise for When You Are Engulfed in Flames Older wiser smarter andmeaner Sedaris...defies the odds once again by delivering an intelligent takeon the banalities of an absurd life. Kirkus Reviews This latest collectionproves that not only does Sedaris still have it but hes also gettingbetter....Sedariss best stuff will stillafter all this timemove surpriseand entertain. Booklist Table of Contents Its Catching Keeping Up TheUnderstudy This Old House Buddy Can You Spare a Tie? Road Trips What I LearnedThats Amore The Monster Mash In the Waiting Room Solutions to SaturdaysPuzzle Adult Figures Charging Toward a Concrete Toadstool Memento Mori All theBeauty You Will Ever Need Town and Country Aerial The Man in the Hut Of Miceand Men April in Paris Crybaby Old Faithful The Smoking Section «