𝔖 Bobbio Scriptorium
✦   LIBER   ✦

Barrel Fever and Other Stories [Stories and Essays]

Book ID
126409787
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Year
1994
Tongue
English
Weight
611 KB
Category
Standards

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

In David Sedaris's world, no one is safe and no cows are sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Leibowitz and the National Enquirer, Sedaris's collection of essays is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban dad saves money by performing home surgery; a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a teenage suicide tries to incite a lynch mob at her funeral; a bitter Santa abuses the elves.

David Sedaris made his debut on NPR's Morning Edition with "SantaLand Diaries," recounting his strange-but-true experiences as an elf at Macy's, and soom became one of the show's most popular commentators. With a perfect eye and a voice infused with as much empathy as wit, Sedaris writes stories and essays that target the soulful ridiculousness of our behavior.

Barrel Fever is a blind date with modern life, and anything can happen.

✦ Subjects

Современная проза

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

cover
Barrel fever: stories and essays
✍ Sedaris, David 📂 Fiction 📅 1994 🏛 Hachette Digital, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 130 KB

### Amazon.com Review A collection of stories and essays by humorist and NPR commentator David Sedaris based upon his own experiences and the hidden perversity that can be found in Anytown, U.S.A. Here are images and blasphemies that nice people don't dare look at--blatantly exposed and told with t

cover
Barrel fever: stories and essays
✍ David Sedaris 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Co 🌐 en-US ⚖ 124 KB 👁 2 views

A satirical look at modern culture. In Glen's Homophobia Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 2, the author parodies the whining of minority groups, Diary of a Smoker tackles the persecution of smokers, and Santaland Diaries describes the author's experiences as a Macy's elf.;Parade -- Music for lovers -- The la

cover
Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
✍ Sedaris, David 📂 Fiction 📅 1994 🏛 Hachette Digital, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 120 KB

**In David Sedaris's world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. Sedaris's collection of essays and stories is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban dad saves money by performing home surgery; a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the wor

Barrel fever : stories and essays
Barrel fever : stories and essays
📂 Standards 📅 2009 🏛 Indigo;Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Co 🌐 English ⚖ 904 KB

A satirical look at modern culture. In Glen's Homophobia Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 2, the author parodies the whining of minority groups, Diary of a Smoker tackles the persecution of smokers, and Santaland Diaries describes the author's experiences as a Macy's elf. Abstract: A satirical look at mo

cover
The Magic Barrel and Other Stories
✍ Bernard Malamud 📂 Fiction 📅 1950 🏛 Farrar, Straus and Giroux 🌐 English ⚖ 144 KB 👁 3 views

{ Oct 2020 - epub revisions. Verified ebook for complete book description, cover, table of contents, content separation, and epub format error checking. } Paperback, 240 pages Published 1950 FSG eBook (2011) National Book Award for Fiction (1959) Introduction by Jhumpa Lahiri Bernard Mal

cover
True Stories: And Other Essays
✍ Spufford, Francis 📂 Fiction 🏛 Yale University Press 🌐 English ⚖ 324 KB

**An irresistible collection of favorite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictability** Francis Spufford's welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the 1990s to the present. He makes use of a variety of encounte