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Amazon.com Review
Whether by nature or by nurture, Ma and Pa Sedaris certainly knew something about raising funny kids. Amy Sedaris has built a cult following for her Comedy Central character Jerri Blank, and David, the more famous of the two siblings, continues to spin his personal history into comedic gold. A good chunk of the material in Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim debuted in other media outlets, such as The New Yorker, but Sedaris's brilliantly written essays deserve repeat reads. Based on the author's descriptions, nearly every member of his family is funny, although some (like sister Tiffany, perhaps) in a tragic way. In "The Change in Me," Sedaris remembers that his mother was good at imitating people when it helped drive home her point. High-voiced, lovably plain-spoken brother Paul (aka The Rooster, Silly P) has long been a favorite character for Sedaris readers, though Paul's story takes on a serious note when his wife has a difficult pregnancy. The author doesn't shy away from embarrassing moments in his own life, either, including a childhood poker game that strays into strange, psychological territory. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim provides more evidence that he is a great humorist, memoirist, and raconteur, and readers are lucky to have the opportunity to know him (and his clan) so well. His funny family feels like our own. Perhaps they are luckier still not to know him personally. --Leah Weathersby
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From Publishers Weekly
In his latest collection, Sedaris has found his heart. This is not to suggest that the author of Me Talk Pretty One Day and other bestselling books has lost his edge. The 27 essays here (many previously published in Esquire, G.Q. or the New Yorker, or broadcast on PRI's This American Life) include his best and funniest writing yet. Here is Sedaris's family in all its odd glory. Here is his father dragging his mortified son over to the home of one of the most popular boys in school, a boy possessed of "an uncanny ability to please people," demanding that the boy's parents pay for the root canal that Sedaris underwent after the boy hit him in the mouth with a rock. Here is his oldest sister, Lisa, imploring him to keep her beloved Amazon parrot out of a proposed movie based on his writing. ("'Will I have to be fat in the movie?' she asked.") Here is his mother, his muse, locking the kids out of the house after one snow day too many, playing the wry, brilliant commentator on his life until her untimely death from cancer. His mother emerges as one of the most poignant and original female characters in contemporary literature. She balances bitter and sweet, tart and rich—and so does Sedaris, because this is what life is like. "You should look at yourself," his mother says in one piece, as young Sedaris crams Halloween candy into his mouth rather than share it. He does what she says and then some, and what emerges is the deepest kind of humor, the human comedy. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Product details
Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (June 1, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780316143462
ISBN-13: 978-0316143462
ASIN: 0316143464
Product Dimensions:
5.8 x 1 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.3 out of 5 stars
541 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#804,857 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I love David Sedaris especially when he is writing about his family or his partner, Hugh. He is SO funny! His performance of his work is the best way to experience his writing. (So, get the audio books!) I first heard him on public radio (NPR) but I know he performs his work live on tour as well. I will say that while most of his work is not at all offensive, there are a few essays here and there on this audio book and others of his, that have graphic sexual content (i.e. when he was cleaning apartments for a living a man openly masturbated and watched porn in front of him) or language (i.e. when quoting someone else, usually his little brother) that some people may not find tasteful. I think he is a talented writer with a uniquely hilarious American voice that should not be missed.
At least it is for David Sedaris. The second oldest of a large brood (the term is particularly fitting here), he and his siblings clung together for dear life. Born into an uneasy marriage, both parents shell-shocked from their own miserable childhoods, the Sedaris kids had only each other. In adulthood, they continue to bicker and cling in an endless cycle of love and rejection and exasperation and need.All of them are outsiders, trying with greater or lesser success to fit into a world that was never a good fit to begin with. Would they have been happier or more content or felt more at home if the family had remained in New York State? The author remembers the move to North Carolina as a watershed event. From that point on, it was the Greeks against the Rednecks and the Rednecks outnumbered them by a wide margin.Or was it simply that Lou and Sharon Sedaris had unrealistic expectations of middle-class life. Children of the Great Depression, they believed that his engineering career and the suburban house and country club membership it afforded would make them happy. Middle-class families in ads always LOOK happy, don’t they?This is a typical David Sedaris book. He mines snarky humor from his family’s pain and confusion, past and present. His father’s anger, his mother’s depression, his siblings’ tragedies and triumphs, and his own career as the geekiest, most miserable teen in the history of the human race. All are grist for the mill.We see him as a child, basking in his mother’s charm and casual acceptance while sensing her unhappiness. Then we see him as a grown man, his mother dead and beyond his help. His father very much alive and as obliviously cruel as ever. His long, happy partnership with a man who’s as unlike him as chalk and cheese. They have nothing in common but love.A born writer writes because he MUST. To record the events of his life - even the horrible ones - is the only way he can deal with them. Sedaris laughs at himself and his troubles and absurdities and he generously invites us to laugh along with him. What could be better?My favorite chapter is “Slumus Lordicus†in which Lou and Sharon embark on an ill-fated (what else?) attempt to build an empire of rental property and become wealthy. It can be done and HAS been done, but not by two people who lack the savvy to spot a potentially disastrous tenant or the moxie to deal with one after the fact.The Empire didn’t make the family rich, but it did provide tender bonding moments for father and son as they fight to the death over Lou’s campaign to use his oldest son as slave labor and as they team up to pit themselves (always pathetically) against their common enemies - the wily tenants. It’s classic Sedaris and humor doesn't get any better than that.
I love David Sedaris. I also love that he's from my hometown, though (1) I've never met him, and (2) I didn't know that until after I'd started following his writing career. In this collection, he mentions Binghamton twice. But that little thrill is secondary to the impact of these essays. I realize this is an older book -- I recently read his newest -- but it was part of a gap in my Sedaris reading. As usual, he springs a lot of surprises. And he is searingly open about his life and himself. And yet, he laughs, and invites us to laugh with him. What a generous gift.
I admire the way David Sedaris can spin a yarn, but I find him too dislikable to ever read another of his books. I was particularly disturbed by his telling of his compulsion to want to touch peoples’ heads — especially a young boy’s — and in the cruel manner in which he dispatched from life a suffering mouse. C’mon, David, just end the poor thing’s life already. Don’t be such a wuss. If I ever read another Sedaris tome, it will be to pick up writing style tips. His manner is colorful and descriptive, and the scenes he paints appear vividly in my mind. That part I like.
This is a great book! David Sedaris always makes me laugh out loud and I just love every story he writes. I didn't want to put this book down and I didn't want it to end. I love the titles of his books too-he's such a unique writer and the way he describes things makes you able to really picture the scene and feel like you're transported there. His stories are funny, interesting and so different from anything else I've read.
Every single book that I've read of David Sedaris is laugh out loud hilarious. I tried reading this on a flight in which I didn't have a travel partner, so I'm quite sure the passengers around me thought I had lost it by the time we arrived at our destination because I was laughing myself to tears.
David Sedaris' take on life is just a little left of center. He is droll and entertaining in this collection of stories that mostly focus on his family's loony adventures and skewed sense of the world. I'm really glad he is not my brother because the man has no mercy in his depictions of his sisters, brother and parents. No one escape's unscathed, not his boyfriend Hugh or their eighty year old neighbor or David himself.Some of the stories are laugh out loud funny, others are more than a little gross, but like a bad accident you can't help but look (or read). I have to say that my first book by Sedaris was When You are Engulfed in Flames, and it was an audio. As much as I enjoyed reading this book, I realize that something is lost when reading this as opposed to listening, and it is Sedaris' inflections and pauses and dry tone that make him such a great storyteller. So I liked it a lot- but would have loved to listen to it.
David Sedaris can bring out a smile, a laugh or a though provoking smirk no matter if he is writing about a mouse or a wedding. His comic intelligence is so superior and fun at the same time.
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