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Title:
When you are engulfed in flames
Author:
Sedaris, David.
ISBN:
9780316143479
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Little, Brown, 2008.
Physical Description:
viii, 323 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents:
It's catching -- Keeping up -- The understudy -- This old house -- Buddy, can you spare a tie? -- Road trips -- What I learned -- That's amore -- The monster mash -- In the waiting room -- Solution to Saturday's puzzle -- Adult figures charging toward a concrete toadstool -- Memento mori -- All the beauty you will ever need -- Town and country -- Aerial -- The man in the hut -- Of mice and men -- April in Paris -- Crybaby -- Old Faithful -- The smoking section.
Abstract:
A collection of essays celebrates the foibles of the author's everyday life in France and America, from an attempt to make coffee with water from a flower vase to a drug purchase in a North Carolina mobile home.