Me Talk Pretty One Day PDF Download

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Publisher: Abacus
Genres: Memoirs Books, Literary Essays, Funny Books & Stories
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Pages: 272 pages
ISBN10: 0349113912
ISBN13: 9780349113913
Tags: Memoirs Books, Literary Essays, Funny Books & Stories, Free Download, PDF Download
Language: en
Physical Form: PDF Book
Type: PDF
Sedaris's caustic gift has not deserted him in his fourth book, which mines poignant comedy from his peculiar childhood in North Carolina, his bizarre career path, and his move with his lover to France. Though his anarchic inclination to digress is his glory, Sedaris does have a theme in these reminiscences: the inability of humans to communicate. The title is his rendition in transliterated English of how he and his fellow students of French in Paris mangle the Gallic language. In the essay "Jesus Shaves," he and his classmates from many nations try to convey the concept of Easter to a Moroccan Muslim. "It is a party for the little boy of God," says one. "Then he be die one day on two... morsels of... lumber," says another. Sedaris muses on the disputes between his Protestant mother and his father, a Greek Orthodox guy whose Easter fell on a different day. Other essays explicate his deep kinship with his eccentric mom and absurd alienation from his IBM-exec dad: "To me, the greatest mystery of science continues to be that a man could father six children who shared absolutely none of his interests."

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