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Title: Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020)
Author: David Sedaris
ISBN: 9780316558792
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2021
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 576
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
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There’s no right way to keep a diary, but if there’s an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it’s navel-gazing you’re after, you’ve come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, David Sedaris’s observations turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between two men on the street, pedestrians being whacked over the head or gathering to watch as a man considers leaping to his death. There’s a dirty joke shared at a book signing, then a dirtier one told at a dinner party–lots of jokes here. Plenty of diaries remind you that you once really hated George W. Bush, and that not too long ago, Donald Trump was just a harmless laughingstock, at least on French TV. Time marches on, and Sedaris, at his desk or on planes, in hotel dining rooms and odd Japanese inns, records entries here reflect an ever-changing background–new administrations, new restrictions on speech and conduct. What you can say at the start of the book, you can’t by the end. A Carnival of Snackery is a sort of sampler: the bitter and the sweet. Some entries are just what you wanted. Others you might want to spit discreetly into a napkin.
“Sedaris is a singularly talented humorist.” —The Washington Post A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
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