A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020)

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A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020) - Paperback

A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020) - Paperback

by David Sedaris
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Book Overview

There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it.

If it's navel-gazing you're after, you've come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, David Sedaris's observations turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between two men on the street, pedestrians being whacked over the head or gathering to watch as a man considers leap­ing to his death. There's a dirty joke shared at a book signing, then a dirtier one told at a dinner party--lots of jokes here. Plenty of laughs.

These diaries remind you that you once really hated George W. Bush, and that not too long ago, Donald Trump was just a harm­less laughingstock, at least on French TV. Time marches on, and Sedaris, at his desk or on planes, in hotel dining rooms and odd Japanese inns, records it.

The entries here reflect an ever-changing background--new administrations, new restrictions on speech and conduct. What you can say at the start of the book, you can't by the end. A Carnival of Snackery is a sort of sampler: the bitter and the sweet. Some entries are just what you wanted. Others you might want to spit discreetly into a napkin.

"Sedaris is a singularly talented humorist." --The Washington Post

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
ISBN9780316270182
Author David Sedaris
PublisherBack Bay Books
GenreBiography, Literature, and Humor & comedy
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2022
LanguageENG- English
Pages576
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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David Sedaris is the author of Barrel Fever and Holidays on Ice, as well as collections of personal essays, Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, When You Are Engulfed in Flames. Sedaris' pieces appear regularly in The New Yorker and have twice been included in "The Best American Essays." There are over ten million copies of his books in print and they have been translated into 25 languages.

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