Naked
by David Sedaris
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Author: David SedarisReader: David Sedaris
Reader: Amy Sedaris
Edition: Audio Cassette
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
Published: 1997-04-01
ISBN: 1570424810
Publisher: Hachette Audio
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Book Review: Naked is clearly the best book ever
Summary: 5 Stars
I love all of David Sedaris' books, and Naked is my absolute fave. Sedaris is funny and smart without "mugging" for laughs. His use of language and tempo is spot on. One of my favorite quotes of all time comes from the story, "Dinah the Christmas Whore," when Dinah, the Christmas Whore, drunk at the Sedaris family home, lovingly refers to Sedaris and his siblings as "A pack of goddman angels."
The author is glaringly open about his insecurities, hopes, dreams, downfalls, and it is this is why we can laugh at his criticisms of those around him because he is always most critical of himself.
"Get Your Yaya's Out," about Sedaris' depressed, unassimilated (though having lived in the US for four decades at least)Greek grandmother with a tendency to gather and eat the neighbor's plants, is both hilarious and sad. I don't want give anything else away because it's a treat to explore this book on your own.
I don't believe that this should be labled as a "gay memoir." Good writing, humor, the human condition, the universal unconscious: all supercede sexual identity, race, or religion. I adore Naked and I find myself relating to Sedaris more than any other author and that is the stark truth.
Audrey Spilker Hagar, author, Our Lives Have Gone to the Dogs
Summary of Naked
One of the most talked-about, most enjoyed bestsellers of the year, "Naked" offers a collection of hilarious, touching, genre-bending vignettes "guaranteed to make you blow milk out your nose" ("Details").Hip radio comedy fans and theater folks who belong to the cult of Obie-winning playwright/performer David Sedaris must kill to get this book. These would be fans of the scaldingly snide Sedaris's hilariously described personal misadventures like The Santaland Diaries (a monologue about his work as an elf to a department store Santa) seen off-Broadway in 1997. In a series of similarly textured essays, Sedaris takes us along on his catastrophic detours through a nudist colony, a fruit-packing plant, his own childhood, and a dozen more of the world's little purgatories.
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