Entertainment Weekly on Barrel Fever Sidesplitting Not one of the essays in this new collection failed to crack me up frequently I was helpless. In Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris, a middle-aged man returns to school in Paris with hopes of learning French. At last, someone even meaner than the French! The sort of blithely sophisticated, loopy humour that might have resulted if Dorothy Parker and James Thurber had had a love child.

Sedariss essays on living in Paris are some of the funniest hes ever written. Sedaris is an amazing reader whose appearances draw hundreds, and his performancesincluding a jaw-dropping impression of Billie Holiday singing I wish I were an Oscar Meyer weinerare unforgettable. Me Talk Pretty One Day Paperback Jby David Sedaris (Author) 8,385 ratings Part of: Me Talk Pretty One Day (1 books) See all formats and editions Kindle 10. Compared by The New Yorker to Twain and Hawthorne, Sedaris has become one of our best-loved authors. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers and cashiers with 6-inch fingernails. You Cant Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. David Sedaris, a humorist and writer, presents a compilation of comical personal essays in Me Talk Pretty One Day. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French.

A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation.

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