Naked
by David Sedaris | Biographies & Memoirs | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0316779490 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0316779490 Global Overview for this book
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An early Sedaris, found in a second hand book shop in Oregon City, OR
(17/05/24) This is only Sedaris’s second book, written over 25 years ago, but the unique voice has already been established and it’s as funny and fresh as his later books. It includes a lot of anecdotes about growing up with 4 sisters, a younger brother, and eccentric parents in Raleigh, NC, his life and university and early dead-end jobs, hitchhiking, naturism (‘Naked’), homo-sexuality, OCD … a strange boy, and a man with funny bones!
I’ve already read one of the stories, ‘Dinah, the Christmas whore’, in a holiday-themed compilation, which in includes this typical Sedaris line, ‘… from this moment on, the phrase “ho, ho, ho” would take on a whole different meaning’. We hear a lot about his father (recently died) and his mother’s cancer diagnosis and illness, so quite nostalgic. When the ‘Christmas whore’ is being interrogated and feted as an exotic guest, David’s dad comes upstairs from watching TV in the basement in his underwear; he always exaggerates the time, ’... it’s four o’clock in the morning goddamnit.’ I can almost hear and see the Sedaris family in this exchange.
(17/05/24) This is only Sedaris’s second book, written over 25 years ago, but the unique voice has already been established and it’s as funny and fresh as his later books. It includes a lot of anecdotes about growing up with 4 sisters, a younger brother, and eccentric parents in Raleigh, NC, his life and university and early dead-end jobs, hitchhiking, naturism (‘Naked’), homo-sexuality, OCD … a strange boy, and a man with funny bones!
I’ve already read one of the stories, ‘Dinah, the Christmas whore’, in a holiday-themed compilation, which in includes this typical Sedaris line, ‘… from this moment on, the phrase “ho, ho, ho” would take on a whole different meaning’. We hear a lot about his father (recently died) and his mother’s cancer diagnosis and illness, so quite nostalgic. When the ‘Christmas whore’ is being interrogated and feted as an exotic guest, David’s dad comes upstairs from watching TV in the basement in his underwear; he always exaggerates the time, ’... it’s four o’clock in the morning goddamnit.’ I can almost hear and see the Sedaris family in this exchange.
