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A Carnival of Snackery - Diaries (2003-2020) by David Sedaris
$0.00 NZD
Category: No Category
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice: There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it. If it's navel-gazing you're after, you've come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observations turn outward: ...Show more
A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries: Volume Two by David Sedaris
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it. If it's navel-gazing you're after, you've come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observations turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between t ...Show more
Barrel Fever by David Sedaris
$28.00 NZD
Category: LGBTQI+
'Barrel Fever' is a collection of personal essays, surprising, disarming, and funny, from David Sedaris, who Time named America's Favorite Humorist.
Calypso by David Sedaris
$29.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: very good
'Unquestionably the king of comic writing . . . Calypso is both funnier and more heartbreaking than pretty much anything out there' Hadley Freeman, Guardian If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. ...Show more
Calypso by David Sedaris
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Unquestionably the king of comic writing . . . Calypso is both funnier and more heartbreaking than pretty much anything out there' Hadley Freeman, Guardian A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you ...Show more
Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003 - 2020 by David Sedaris
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Language Acts and Worldm Ser.
For forty years, David Sedaris has kept a diary in which he records everything that captures his attention-overheard comments, salacious gossip, soap opera plot twists, secrets confided by total strangers. These observations are the source code for his finest work, and through them he has honed his cunn ...Show more
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules by David Sedaris, Ed
$35.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
A collection of short stories, selected and introduced by David Sedaris. From Alice Munro, Tobias Wolf, Joyce Carol Oates and more. The careful reader will discover the truth about loneliness, hope, love and betrayal.
Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim by David Sedaris
$19.99 NZD
Category: Humour | Reading Level: near fine
David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveller. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn't ...Show more
Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
David Sedaris returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso. Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper and wearing a mask - or not - was a decision mostly made on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy Go Lucky opens, h ...Show more
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favorites as 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 difficulti ...Show more
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
$22.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: very good
Welcome to the wonderful world of America's foremost humorist David Sedaris, where learning French, like life, is littered with idiosyncratic delight . . . 'The Italian was attempting to answer the teacher's latest question when the Moroccan student interrupted, shouting, "Excuse me, but what's an Easte ...Show more
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Hachette Essentials) by David Sedaris
$20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: HACHETTE ESSENTIALS
A hilarious collection of essays from 'the premier observer of our world and its weirdnesses,' New York Times bestselling author David Sedaris (Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt) Anyone who has heard David Sedaris speaking live or on the radio will tell you that a collection from him is cause ...Show more