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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780316035903
Edition: First Edition
ISBN: 0316035904
Label: Little, Brown and Company
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: October 08, 2008
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Studio: Little, Brown and Company
Features:- ISBN13: 9780316035903
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favoritesas the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters ("Us and Them"); the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to the French ("Jesus Shaves"); what to do when you've been locked out in a snowstorm ("Let It Snow"); the puzzling Christmas traditions of other nations ("Six to Eight Black Men"); what Halloween at the medical examiner's looks like ("The Monster Mash"); and a barnyard secret Santa scheme gone awry ("Cow and Turkey").
No matter what your favorite holiday, you won't want to miss celebrating it with the author who has been called "one of the funniest writers alive" (Economist).
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The first book I read of Sedaris's was Me Talk Pretty One Day, which was a mistake since I think it is probably the funniest book I have ever read. Holidays On Ice is still a good read, although it pales in comparison. It is funny, and if your family is as twisted as mine, then you could use it as a stocking stuffer. The best essay was clearly the Santaland Diaries, but Six to Eight Black Men was also extraordinarily funny.
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Love, love, love David Sedaris. It's a great take on the holidays: snarky and dark and it fills a void in the sometimes over-merrified season. The recording of Holidays on Ice is worth checking out, too. It's fun to hear how he interprets his work.
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An easy to read collection of essays about the holidays. This book was so much fun, laugh until you cry fun. Because it's a collection, it's perfect to pick up and read when you need a break from the chores that surround the holidays... all of them.
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Seven out of the twelve stories in this book have appeared in other books by Sedaris and are reprinted here. The reprinted stories are all his typical non-fiction, commentaries on his life. The other five stories are fiction, and while they are creatively written I don't find them as interesting as Sedaris' true accounts of his own life. The fiction stories are over-the-top ridiculous. They're not bad, just not what I'm used to and not what I expected.
Here are the stories:
"SantaLand Diaries" (from Barrel Fever)
"Season's Greetings to Our Friends and Family!!!" (fiction)
"Front Row Center with Thaddeus Bristol" (fiction)
"Based Upon a True Story" (fiction)
"Christmas Means Giving" (fiction)
"Dinah, the Christmas Whore" (from Naked)
"Jesus Shaves" (from Me Talk Pretty One Day)
"Us and Them" (from Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim)
"Let It Snow" (from Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim)
"Six to Eight Black Men" (from Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim)
"The Monster Mash" (from When You Are Engulfed in Flames)
"The Cow and The Turkey" (fiction, new story for this edition)
If you want to read something really unusual from Sedaris, namely fiction, then check out this book. The non-fiction stories reprinted in this book are also very good with a couple of them being some of my favorites by Sedaris.
This is a new edition of this book. The original edition, which is a few bucks cheaper, only contains the first six stories, while this one has twelve.
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This was the first David Sedaris book that I had ever run across. I didn't know anything about it, or him, when I picked it up - it just looked like an interesting, light read. I couldn't have enjoyed it more! What great stories and his delivery and writing style is unmatched! Since that fateful day I have read every Sedaris book I can find! I recommend them to everyone! This book is still my favorite. I re-read it every year for the holidays and I recommend that you do too!
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