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Active shooter -- Father time -- Bruised -- A speech to the graduates -- Hurricane season -- Highfalutin -- Unbuttoned -- Themes and variations -- To Serbia with love -- The vacuum -- Pearls -- Fresh-caught haddock -- Happy-go-lucky -- A better place -- Lady Marmalade -- Smile, beautiful -- Pussy toes -- Lucky-go happy. |
| Summary |
"Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a maskor notwas a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes. But then the pandemic hits, and like so many others, hes stuck in lockdown, unable to tour and read for audiences, the part of his work he loves most. To cope, he walks for miles through a nearly deserted city, smelling only his own breath. He vacuums his apartment twice a day, fails to hoard anything, and contemplates how sex workers and acupuncturists might be getting by during quarantine. As the world gradually settles into a new reality, Sedaris too finds himself changed. His offer to fix a strangers teeth rebuffed, he straightens his own, and ventures into the world with new confidence. Newly orphaned, he considers what it means, in his seventh decade, no longer to be someones son. And back on the road, he discovers a battle-scarred America: people weary, storefronts empty or festooned with Help Wanted signs, walls painted with graffiti reflecting the contradictory messages of our time: Eat the Rich. Trump 2024. Black Lives Matter." -- Publisher's website. |
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Sedaris, David -- Anecdotes.
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Essayists -- United States -- Anecdotes.
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American wit and humor.
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Essays.
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Anecdotes.
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Humor.
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Personal narratives.
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Essays.
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| Includes |
Sedaris, David.
Active shooter.
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Sedaris, David.
Father time.
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Sedaris, David.
Bruised.
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Sedaris, David.
Speech to the graduates.
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Sedaris, David.
Hurricane season.
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Sedaris, David.
Highfalutin.
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Sedaris, David.
Unbuttoned.
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Sedaris, David.
Themes and variations.
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Sedaris, David.
To Serbia with love.
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Sedaris, David.
Vacuum.
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| ISBN |
9780316392457
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