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A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries: Volume Two by David Sedaris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
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
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'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
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'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
Calypso by David Sedaris
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | 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
Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003 - 2020 by David Sedaris
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | 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
David Sedaris Visual Compendium by Jeffrey Jenkins (Editor); David Sedaris (Foreword by, Introduction by)
$65.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
In THEFT BY FINDING, David Sedaris opened up his written diaries (and himself) to the world in an unprecedented way. Now, in this illustrated volume, readers will for the first time be able to experience the elaborate, three-dimensional, handmade form that his diaries have always taken. For, in addition ...Show more
Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim by David Sedaris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | 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
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | 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
Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask-or not-was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to ...Show more
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
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
Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls by David Sedaris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: General Adult
A new collection of essays from the #1 New York Times bestselling author who has been called "the preeminent humorist of his generation" (Entertainment Weekly). From the unique perspective of David Sedaris comes a new collection of essays taking his listeners on a bizarre and stimulating world tour. F ...Show more
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | 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