- Aging, Mortality, American wit and humor, Anecdotes
Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality.
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Contemporary, classical in form, comic and character-led.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- David Sedaris, Aurora Ballester
- First published
- 1900
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Hachette Book Group, Navona Editorial, Back Bay Books
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781549198311
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About David Sedaris · 1956
David Raymond Sedaris is an American humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor
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