This is a relatively short listen and it should appeal to anyone who like satirical humor drawn from personal introspection. Sedaris narrates his own work, so the stories comes off more powerful than a classic text might especially in the first story where he talks about a lisping problem he had as a child. And so the stories continue one by one making you laugh and every now and again he slips in a potent serious message.
You cannot help but laugh as the story unwinds and young David gets the best of the teacher in the end. The title is taken from the first story where David, as a 3rd grader, goes to a speech therapist. True to his other novels, this is a compendium of stories.
Whether describing the Easter bunny to puzzled classmates or watching a group of men play soccer with a cow, Sedaris brings a view and a voice like no other to every unforgettable encounter.Ī constant set of chuckles and a few gotchas! Arriving a "spooky man-child" capable of communicating only through nouns, he undertakes language instruction that leads him ever deeper into cultural confusion. His move to Paris poses a number of challenges, chief among them his inability to speak the language. From budding performance artist ("The only crimp in my plan was that I seemed to have no talent whatsoever") to "clearly unqualified" writing teacher in Chicago, Sedaris' career leads him to New York City and eventually, of all places, France. It begins with a North Carolina childhood filled with speech-therapy classes ("There was the lisp, of course, but more troubling than that was my voice itself, with its excitable tone and high, girlish pitch") and unwanted guitar lessons taught by a midget. OL2693099W Page_number_confidence 88.70 Pages 294 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.14 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210701193841 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 495 Scandate 20210628190835 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780316776967 Tts_version 4.David Sedaris' new collection of essays - including live recordings! - tells a most unconventional life story. Urn:lcp:metalkprettyoned0000seda:epub:d7bb2e35-681f-4104-87de-255a242a1a30 Foldoutcount 0 Grant_report Arcadia #4281 Identifier metalkprettyoned0000seda Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t97778t0k Invoice 2089 Isbn 0316776963 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA12541 Openlibrary_edition
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