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WHEN YOU ARE ENGULFED IN FLAMES
By: David Sedaris

Little, Brown & Company
June 2008
On Sale: June 3, 2008
336 pages
ISBN: 0316143472
EAN: 9780316143479
Hardcover
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Humor

"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).

Media Buzz

CBS Sunday Morning - January 9, 2011
This American Life - May 15, 2010
Jimmy Kimmel Live - August 11, 2009
Jimmy Kimmel Live - June 16, 2009
Late Show with David Letterman - July 18, 2008
Today - June 21, 2008
Daily Show with Jon Stewart - June 3, 2008