Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: later repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed,Remainder mark
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Small crease on rear cover.
What happens when one of America's sharpest comic minds turns his unflinching gaze on the chaos, embarrassment, and unlikely tenderness of family life? The result is Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris's masterful collection of autobiographical essays that chronicles the absurdities of his North Carolina upbringing, his eccentric siblings, and the painfully relatable dynamics of a household held together by equal parts dysfunction and love. With razor-sharp wit and a storyteller's instinct for the perfectly humiliating detail, Sedaris transforms mundane domestic moments — a family vacation, a neighbourhood rivalry, a childhood grudge — into comic set pieces of extraordinary precision. Sedaris has long been celebrated for his ability to inhabit the uncomfortable spaces between laughter and pathos, and this collection stands as one of his most accomplished works. His prose is deceptively conversational, luring the reader into a false sense of ease before landing an emotional sucker-punch that lingers long after the final page. For fans of sharp literary humour and searingly honest memoir, this is essential reading — a book that will make you question whether your own family is gloriously normal or spectacularly strange.
Author: David Sedaris
Format: Paperback
Published: 2005, Back Bay Books / Little, Brown and Company
Genre: Essays
Edition: later repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed,Remainder mark
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Small crease on rear cover.
What happens when one of America's sharpest comic minds turns his unflinching gaze on the chaos, embarrassment, and unlikely tenderness of family life? The result is Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris's masterful collection of autobiographical essays that chronicles the absurdities of his North Carolina upbringing, his eccentric siblings, and the painfully relatable dynamics of a household held together by equal parts dysfunction and love. With razor-sharp wit and a storyteller's instinct for the perfectly humiliating detail, Sedaris transforms mundane domestic moments — a family vacation, a neighbourhood rivalry, a childhood grudge — into comic set pieces of extraordinary precision. Sedaris has long been celebrated for his ability to inhabit the uncomfortable spaces between laughter and pathos, and this collection stands as one of his most accomplished works. His prose is deceptively conversational, luring the reader into a false sense of ease before landing an emotional sucker-punch that lingers long after the final page. For fans of sharp literary humour and searingly honest memoir, this is essential reading — a book that will make you question whether your own family is gloriously normal or spectacularly strange.