Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, etc. [B0468]

2013 HCDJ 1st Edition in Gift-Worthy condition. "Sedaris is a remarkably skilled storyteller and savvy essayist....And, based on this latest collection, he's getting only better." ---Los Angeles Times. A guy walks into a bar car and... From here the story could take many turns. When the guy is David Sedaris, the possibilities are endless, but the result is always the same: he will both delight you with twists of humor and intelligence and leave you deeply moved. Sedaris remembers his father's dinnertime attire (shirtsleeves and underpants), his first colonoscopy (remarkably pleasant), and the time he considered buying the skeleton of a murdered Pygmy. The common thread? Sedaris masterfully turns each essay into a love story: how it feels to be in a relationship where one loves and is loved over many years, what it means to be part of a family, and how it's possible, through all of life's absurdities, to grow to love oneself. With LET'S EXPLORE DIABETES WITH OWLS, David Sedaris shows once again why he is widely considered the "the funniest writer in America" (O, the Oprah Magazine).

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "Classic David Sedaris-witty, weird, and wildly entertaining. His ability to take the most mundane or awkward moments and turn them into something laugh-out-loud funny is unmatched. I found myself cracking up one minute and then unexpectedly reflective the next."; "The stories I liked (a great majority), I loved. The stories I didn't like were on the hate scale (although, I do understand sarcasm . . just not into the preachy tone of it right now). Therefore I had to land my rating smack dab in the middle."; "David Sedaris is a very satirical, dry humored essayist who also reads his work all over the world. He writes about everyday things in his life. Having prior addictions and being gay he often writes about occurrences with strangers all over the world. His writing is really for adults with most of his discussions including foul language and often adult themes. I've always enjoyed his humor, along with seeing him on tour. There's always a number of essays where I find myself laughing out loud, which is a quality often hard to find in books today."