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Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle Brown & Company
ISBN-100316392456
ISBN-139780316392457
eBay Product ID (ePID)18050430073
Product Key Features
Book TitleHappy-Go-Lucky
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPersonal Memoirs, General, Literary, Essays, Siblings, Form / Essays
Publication Year2022
GenreFamily & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Humor, Literary Collections
AuthorDavid Sedaris
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight13.5 Oz
Item Length5.8 in
Item Width8.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2021-945760
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsPraise for Happy-Go-Lucky : "Sublimely funny... Sedaris is back, doing the thing his readers have come to adore: offering up wry, moving, punchy stories about his oddball family... The pieces range widely, following the path of Sedaris's travels and his eccentric mind, but a through line involves his nonagenarian father... This is one of the more complicated relationships of Sedaris's life, and he is unflinching as he tries to understand who his enigmatic father was, and how living with him altered the shape of his own existence."-- Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, "A sweet-and-sour set of pieces on loss, absurdity, and places they intersect... Sedaris remains stubbornly irreverent even in the face of pandemic lockdowns and social upheaval."-- Kirkus Reviews, "Sedaris, a perennial contrarian, has entered into a comfortable late-middle age that could sink a less determined writer... Happily for Sedaris's fans, it will take more than prosperity to mellow him out: His trademark black humor and puckish misanthropy remain."-- James Tarmy, Bloomberg
Dewey Decimal818.602
SynopsisDavid Sedaris, the "champion storyteller," ( Los Angeles Times ) returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask--or not--was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes. But then the pandemic hits, and like so many others, he's stuck in lockdown, unable to tour and read for audiences, the part of his work he loves most. To cope, he walks for miles through a nearly deserted city, smelling only his own breath. He vacuums his apartment twice a day, fails to hoard anything, and contemplates how sex workers and acupuncturists might be getting by during quarantine. As the world gradually settles into a new reality, Sedaris too finds himself changed. His offer to fix a stranger's teeth rebuffed, he straightens his own, and ventures into the world with new confidence. Newly orphaned, he considers what it means, in his seventh decade, no longer to be someone's son. And back on the road, he discovers a battle-scarred America: people weary, storefronts empty or festooned with Help Wanted signs, walls painted with graffiti reflecting the contradictory messages of our time: Eat the Rich. Trump 2024. Black Lives Matter. In Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris once again captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about these recent upheavals, personal and public, and expresses in precise language both the misanthropy and desire for connection that drive us all. If we must live in interesting times, there is no one better to chronicle them than the incomparable David Sedaris.
LC Classification NumberPS3569.E314H37 2022
Bewertungen und Rezensionen
Relevanteste Rezensionen
- 01. Mär. 2025
Amusing
David's books have gotten progressively less funny. This one is amusing but no belly laughs. Nice short chapters easy to break away from, great for taking to the doctors office while you wait. So good book but not brilliant. I have yet to finish it but I will.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 09. Sep. 2023
Great read
Love David Sedaris! Excellent quality bookBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 13. Mär. 2025
Good book. Great shape. ...
Good book. Great shape.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 27. Mai. 2024
Perfect, thanks!
Perfect, thanks!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
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