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When You Are Engulfed in Flames

By: David Sedaris
Narrated by: David Sedaris
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 David Sedaris' remarkable ability to uncover the hilarious absurdity teeming just below the surface of everyday life is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this new book of stories.

Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life - the etiquette of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger or how to soundproof your windows with LP covers against neurotic songbirds - to the most deeply resonant human truths.

Taking in the parasitic worm that once lived in his mother-in-law's leg, an encounter with a dingo and the purchase of a human skeleton, and culminating in a brilliant account of his attempt to quit smoking - in Tokyo - David Sedaris' sixth story collection is a fresh masterpiece of comic writing.

©2008 David Sedaris (P)2008 Hachette Audio Essays Nonfiction Funny Witty Tobacco
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david sadaris is discriptive and funny, he makes a good narator that suits the obsevational critical comedy he commands so well.

great read

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Loved it! Sedaris is exceptionally talented, affable, and clearly big-hearted. Very enjoyable read. Highly recommend!

Easy Listening

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what more do you want me to say. I could listen to these all day and am

another great sedaris book

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I’m a big fan of David Sedaris. And listening to him reading his own stories is perfection :-)

Very entertaining

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David Sedaris narrating his own work is fantastic, narrated by anyone else it would not be the same. His stories are simultaneously ordinary and hilarious. I found myself chuckling out loud in public on numerous occasions while listening to this book.

Thoroughly entertaining!

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I didn’t finish this book - I love David Sedaris but This was not great to listen to.

Maybe better when read

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