Naked

Naked
ISBN-10
031615850X
ISBN-13
9780316158503
Series
Naked
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
152
Language
English
Published
2014-05-22
Publisher
Little Brown
Authors
David Sedaris, Geoffrey Koske

Description

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

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