CD Audiobook
The best of me [sound recording] / David Sedaris.
The American humorist, author, and radio contributor shares his most memorable work in a collection of stories and essays that feature him shopping for rare taxidermy, hitchhiking with a quadriplegic, and hand-feeding a carnivorous bird.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781549160752
- Physical Description: 12 audio discs (13 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 inches
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : Hachette Audio, [2020]
- Copyright: ℗2020
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Compact disc. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by the author. |
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| Subject: | Sedaris, David. American wit and humor. |
| Genre: | Anecdotes. Audiobooks. Essays. Humor. Personal narratives. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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The American humorist, author and radio contributor presents shares his most memorable work in a collection of stories and essays that feature him shopping for rare taxidermy, hitchhiking with a quadriplegic and hand-feeding a carnivorous bird. Read by the author. Simultaneous. - Grand Central Pub
âGenius⦠It is miraculous to read these pieces⦠You must read The Best of Me.â âAndrew Sean Greer, New York Times Book Review
David Sedarisâs best stories and essays, spanning his remarkable careerâas selected and read by the author himself. Featuring fresh and classic recordings, including a new essay and an interview exclusive to the audiobook.
AÂ New York Times Book Review Editorsâ Choice
A CNN and Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the Month?
For more than twenty-five years, David Sedaris has been carving out a unique literary space, virtually creating his own genre. A Sedaris story may seem confessional, but is also highly attuned to the world outside. It opens our eyes to what is at absurd and moving about our daily existence. And it is almost impossible to listen without laughing.
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Now, for the first time collected in one volume, the author brings us his funniest and most memorable work. In these stories, Sedaris shops for rare taxidermy, hitchhikes with a lady quadriplegic, and spits a lozenge into a fellow travelerâs lap. He drowns a mouse in a bucket, struggles to say âgive it to meâ in five languages, and hand-feeds a carnivorous bird.
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But if all you expect to find in Sedarisâs work is the deft and sharply observed comedy for which he became renowned, you may be surprised to discover that his words bring more warmth than mockery, more fellow-feeling than derision. Nowhere is this clearer than in his writing about his loved ones. In these essays, Sedaris explores falling in love and staying together, recognizing his own aging not in the mirror but in the faces of his siblings, losing one parent and coming to termsâat long lastâwith the other.
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Taken together, the performances in TheBest of Me reveal the wonder and delight Sedaris takes in the surprises life brings him. No experience, he sees, is quite as he expectedâitâs often harder, more fraught, and certainly weirderâbut sometimes it is also much richer and more wonderful.
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Full of joy, generosity, and the incisive humor that has led David Sedaris to be called âthe funniest man aliveâ (Time Out New York), The Best of Me spans a career spent watching and learning and laughingâquite often at himselfâand invites listeners deep into the world of one of the most brilliant and original writers of our time.
The Best of Me AUDIOBOOK TRACK LISTING
Introduction (new recording)
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From Barrel Fever 1994Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
Glenâs Homophobia Newsletter Vol. 3, No. 2.Â
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From Holidays on Ice 1994 Â Â Â Â
Front Row Center with Thaddeus Bristol (new recording)
Christmas Means Giving (new recording)
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From Naked 1997
the incomplete quad  (new recording)
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From the New YorkerÂ
Girl Crazy (new recording)
Card Wired (new recording)
How to Spend the Budget Surplus (new recording)
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From Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000
You Canât Kill the Rooster (new recording)
Me Talk Pretty One Day (new recording)
Jesus Shaves (new recording)
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From the New Yorker
Dog Days   (new recording)
From Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Demin 2004 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
Us and ThemÂ
Let It SnowÂ
The Ship ShapeÂ
The Girl Next DoorÂ
Repeat After Me  Â
Six to Eight Black Men (live recording)
PossessionÂ
Nuit of the Living DeadÂ
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From When You Are Engulfed in Flames 2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
Solution to Saturdayâs Puzzle (live recording)
The Understudy
Town and Country   (live recording)
In the Waiting Room (live recording)
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From The New Yorker
Undecided
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 From Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk 2010
The Cat and the Baboon   (live recording)
The Motherless Bear (new recording)
The Faithful Setter (new recording)
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From Letâs Explore Diabetes with Owls 2013
Dentists Without Borders (live recording)
Memory LapsÂ
Think Differenter  (new recording)
LoggerheadsÂ
If I Ruled the WorldÂ
Easy, TigerÂ
Laugh, Kookaburra (live recording)
Just a Quick e-Mail
A Guy Walks into a Bar Car
Standing By (live recording)
Understanding Understanding OwlsÂ
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From Calypso 2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
Now We Are FiveÂ
A House DividedÂ
The Perfect FitÂ
LeviathanÂ
A Modest Proposal
Why Arenât You Laughing?Â
The Spirit WorldÂ
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From The New Yorker:
Unbuttoned (new recording)
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Audio Exclusive
Interview with Paul Constant (new recording)
