ISBN: 9780606251730
Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris
ISBN 10: 0606251731 / 0-606-25173-1ISBN 13: 9780606251730
Publisher: Demco Media
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Hardcover
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"[I]f Mr. Sedaris sometimes sounds as though he were making do with leftover material, TALK PRETTY still makes for diverting reading. At the same time this volume shows Mr. Sedaris intermittently trying to step out of his role as curmudgeonly complainer. Though he still whips off the tart put-down with practiced ease...[H]e also shows himself capable, in these pages, of something approaching empathy and introspection....[T]he stronger chapters in this book tend to be the ones that mix satire with sentiment, brazenness with rumination. Those pieces reveal a writer who is capable not only of being funny, but touching, even tender, too."
Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, 06/16/2000
Review:"Many lines and several of the premises are brilliant, worthy of our best comic essayists [but the] gifted Sedaris has not been hard enough on himself. At the risk of sounding patronizing, I suspect there is a better writer in there than he is as yet willing to let out."
Jonathan Reynolds, New York Times, 06/04/2000
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