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Get the Summary of David Sedaris's The Best of Me in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: But if all you expect to find in Sedaris's work is the deft and sharply observed comedy for which he became renowned, you may be surprised to discover that his words bring more warmth than mockery, more fellow-feeling than derision. Nowhere is this clearer than in his writing about his loved ones. In...
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Insights from David Sedaris's The Best of Me. Sample Insights:
1) Nowadays, it's so common to throw hate and negativity at something because the Internet makes it easier.
2) In the past, if you didn't like something someone wrote, you'd have to go through the effort of writing a letter by hand and mailing it to them, while now all you need is an email address or social media account.
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"For more than twenty-five years, David Sedaris has been carving out a unique literary space, virtually creating his own genre. A Sedaris story may seem confessional, but is also highly attuned to the world outside. It opens our eyes to what is at absurd and moving about our daily existence. And it is almost impossible to read without laughing. Now, for the first time collected in one volume, the author brings us his funniest and most memorable work....
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Me Talk Pretty One Day contains far more than just the funniest collection of autobiographical essays - it quite well registers as a manifesto about language itself. Wherever there's a straight line, you can be sure that Sedaris lurks beneath the text, making it jagged with laughter; and just where the fault lines fall, he sits mischievously perched at the epicenter of it all.