Happy-Go-Lucky - 'Unquestionably the king of comic writing' Guardian

Informationen zum Autor David Sedaris is the author of twelve previous books, including, most recently, A Carnival of Snackery , The Best of Me , and Calypso . He is a regular contributor to the New Yorker and BBC Radio 4. In 2019, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, the Jonathan Swift Prize for Satire and Humor, and the Terry Southern Prize for Humor. Klappentext Praise for David Sedaris' Calypso 'Unquestionably the king of comic writing . . . Calypso is both funnier and more heartbreaking than pretty much anything out there - Hadley Freeman, Guardian 'We get more of a glimpse than we have before of what lies behind the carapace of a writer who seems able to turn almost any situation to comic gold . . . [an] incredibly funny and sometimes moving meditation on love, death and family life, by a master of his craft - Sunday Times Vorwort The anticipated personal essay collection from always funny, sometimes bizarre humourist David Sedaris. Zusammenfassung The anticipated personal essay collection from always funny, sometimes bizarre humourist David Sedaris.

Product details

• Authors: DAVID SEDARIS, David Sedaris, Sedaris David
• Publisher: Little Brown
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781408714119
• ISBN: 978-1-4087-1411-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 220 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Language Acts and Worldmaking
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; HUMOR / General, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts