David Sedaris moved from New York to Paris where he attempted to learn French. His teacher, a sadist, declared that every day spent with him was like giving birth - the Caesarean way. These essays were inspired by the move.

Me Talk Pretty One Day

Quels sont les avantages du système de santé français ? Les méthodes éducatives d'antan sont-elles plus efficaces que celles de maintenant ? La viande à hamburger est-elle une nourriture appropriée pour des tortues de mer ? Faut-il se faire enlever un kyste bénin ? Comment présenter sa petite amie à sa grand-mère grecque, quand on a 11 ans et que la petite amie en question est noire et pèse plus de cent kilos ? Et surtout, comment faire pour trouver un hibou empaillé à offrir pour la Saint-Valentin ?
Autant de questions, sérieuses ou légères, que David Sedaris explore avec l'humour qu'on lui connaît : qu'il livre des souvenirs d'enfance, qu'il évoque des scènes de la vie quotidienne, ou qu'il invente tout simplement des histoires, son ton incomparable n'a jamais été si précis : cocasserie, absurde et ironie se mélangent, pour notre plus grand plaisir.

Le hibou dans tous ses états

David Sedaris nous offre le meilleur de lui-même dans ce livre qui réunit ses quinze nouvelles les
plus drôles. Au menu, dérision et humour noir sans limites. On retrouve avec plaisir les figures
emblématiques de ses histoires : son petit ami, Hugh, ses parents excentriques, mais surtout
David Sedaris en personne. Doux dingue affligé de tics, menteur invétéré, immature, il est tout
simplement irrésistible.

N'exagérons rien !

David Sedaris' move to Paris from New York inspired these hilarious pieces, including the title essay, about his attempts to learn French from a sadistic teacher who declares that every day spent with you is like having a caesarean section. His family is another inspiration. You Can't Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother, who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers of food and cashiers with six-inch fingernails.

Je Parler Français

Habilles pour l'hiver

NAKED

"David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book. Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from the French countryside to a hilariously uncomfortable memory of buying drugs in a mobile home in rural North Carolina. In essay after essay, Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life-having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger on a plane or armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds-to the most deeply resonant human truths. Culminating in a brilliant account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris's sixth essay collection is a new masterpiece of comic writing from "a writer worth treasuring" (Seattle Times). Praise for When You Are Engulfed in Flames:"Older, wiser, smarter and meaner, Sedaris...defies the odds once again by delivering an intelligent take on the banalities of an absurd life." --Kirkus ReviewsThis latest collection proves that not only does Sedaris still have it, but he's also getting better....Sedaris's best stuff will still--after all this time--move, surprise, and entertain." --Booklist

Je suis très à cheval sur les principes

In David Sedaris's world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Lebowitz and the National Enquirer, Sedaris's collection of stories and essays is a rollicking tour through the American Zeitgeist: a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a teenage suicide tried to incite a lynch mob at her funeral; and in his essays, David Sedaris considers the hazards of rewards of smoking, writing for Giantess magazine, and living with his scrappy brother Paul, aka 'The Rooster'.With a perfect eye and a voice infused with as much empathy as wit, Sedaris writes and reads stories and essays that target the soulful ridiculousness of our behaviour. Barrel Fever is like a blind date with modern life - and anything can happen.

Me Talk Pretty One Day

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