In Naked, David Sedaris''s message is pay attention to me.
Whether he''s taking to the road with a thieving quadriplegic,
sorting out the fancy from the extra-fancy in a bleak fruit-packing
factory, or celebrating Christmas in the company of a recently
paroled prostitute, this collection of memoirs creates a wickedly
incisive portrait of an all-too-familiar world. It takes Sedaris
from his humiliating bout with obsessive behavior in ''A Plague of
Tics'' to the title story, in which he is finally forced to face his
naked self in the mirrored sunglasses of a lunatic. At this soulful
and moving moment, he picks potato chip crumbs from his pubic hair
and wonders what it all means. This remarkable journey into his own
life follows a path of self-effacement and a lifelong search for
identity, leaving him both under suspicion and overdressed.
關於作者:
DAVID SEDARIS is also the author of Barrel Fever,Holidays on
Ice,Me Talk Pretty One Day,and Dress Your Family in Corduryoy and
Denim.He is a regular contributor to Public Radio Internationa''s
This American Life.
目錄:
CHIPPED BEEF
A PLAGUE OF TICS
GET YOUR YA-YA S OUT
NEXT, OF KIN
CYCLOPS
THE WOMEN S OPEN
TRUE DETECTIVE
DIX HILL
I LIKE GUYS
THE DRAMA BUG
DINAH, THE CHRISTMAS WHORE
PLANET OF THE APES
THE INCOMPLETE QUAD