Naked

In "Naked," David Sedaris's message--alternately rendered in "Fakespeare, " Italian, Spanish, and pidgin Greek--is the same: pay attention to me.

Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview-a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable. A tart-tongued mother does dead-on imitations of her young son's nervous tics, to the great amusement of his teachers; a stint of Kerouackian wandering is undertaken (of course!) with a quadriplegic companion; a family gathers for a wedding in the face of imminent death. Through it all is Sedaris's unmistakable voice, without doubt one of the freshest in American writing.

Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 06/01/1998
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.58w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9780316777735


Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Nominee
Award: Triangle Awards - Winner


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 06/07/1998 pg. 36
Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2008 pg. 102