David Sedaris is coming to Canada on July 10th to 13th! Join David Sedaris at the following events: TORONTO JULY 10 7:00 PM - Indigo Manulife JULY 11 8:00 PM - Ben McNally Books OTTAWA JULY 12 7:00 PM - Collected Works Bookstore MONTREAL JULY 13 2:00 PM - Place Montreal Trust "David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," ( The Christian Science Monitor )is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book. Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from the French countryside to a hilariously uncomfortable memory of buying drugs in a mobile home in rural North Carolina. In essay after essay, Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life-having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger on a plane or armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds-to the most deeply resonant human truths. Culminating in a brilliant account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris's sixth essay collection is a new masterpiece of comic writing from "a writer worth treasuring" ( Seattle Times ). Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Starred Review. Sedaris's sparkling essays always shimmer more brightly when read aloud by the author. And his expert timing, mimicry and droll asides are never more polished than during live performances in front of an audience. Happily, four of the 22 pieces are live recordings, and listeners can hear Sedaris's energy increase from the roaring, rolling laughter of the appreciative audience. Sedaris's studio recording of his 10-page Of Mice and Men runs 16 minutes, while the live recording of Town and Country, which runs the same length in print, expands to 22 minutes thanks to an audience that often doesn't let him finish a sentence without making him pause for laughter to subside. The studio recordings usually begin with an acoustic bass and brief sound effect (a buzzing fly, the lighting of a cigarette, the clinking of ice in a drink, etc.). Sedaris's brilliant magnum opus, The Smoking Section (about his successful trip to Tokyo is quit smoking) stretches across the final two CDs. A Little, Brown hardcover (Reviews, Apr. 28). (June) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From: Reed Elsevier Inc. Copyright Reed Business Information

It's Catching	p. 3
Keeping Up	p. 11
The Understudy	p. 20
This Old House	p. 33
Buddy, Can You Spare a Tie?	p. 49
Road Trips	p. 63
What I Learned	p. 73
That's Amore	p. 82
The Monster Mash	p. 109
In the Waiting Room	p. 117
Solution to Saturday's Puzzle	p. 125
Adult Figures Charging Toward a Concrete Toadstool	p. 135
Memento Mori	p. 148
All the Beauty You Will Ever Need	p. 158
Town and Country	p. 166

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