David Sedaris

Sedaris se va a la playa, en la costa de Carolina, para intentar desconectar de todo, pero no puede huir de sí mismo. Ni de su familia. Ni de su trabajo. Ni de su adicción a la pulserita que le cuenta los pasos. Ni del suicidio de su hermana. Ni de su padre de derechas. Ni de Donald Trump. ¿La unica solucion? Reirse de si mismo y de sus miserias como catarsis necesaria para seguir viviendo.Segun The Guardian, el diario britanico mas prestigioso, David Sedaris es el rey indiscutible de la literatura humoristica. Y Calypso es su obra definitiva, la que contiene toda su risa, toda su melancolia. Chistes escatologicos con una prosa digna de Dorothy Parker, animales acomplejados, fantasmas alcoholicos y toda la ternura del mundo.Un libro sobre ese instante en el que te das cuenta de que tu vida tiene mucho mas pasado que futuro. Y echas la vista atras, mientras sonries.

Sedaris se va a la playa, en la costa de Carolina, para intentar desconectar de todo, pero no puede huir de sí mismo. Ni de su familia. Ni de su trabajo. Ni de su adicción a la pulserita que le cuenta los pasos. Ni del suicidio de su hermana. Ni de su padre de derechas. Ni de Donald Trump. ¿La unica solucion? Reirse de si mismo y de sus miserias como catarsis necesaria para seguir viviendo.Segun The Guardian, el diario britanico mas prestigioso, David Sedaris es el rey indiscutible de la literatura humoristica. Y Calypso es su obra definitiva, la que contiene toda su risa, toda su melancolia. Chistes escatologicos con una prosa digna de Dorothy Parker, animales acomplejados, fantasmas alcoholicos y toda la ternura del mundo.Un libro sobre ese instante en el que te das cuenta de que tu vida tiene mucho mas pasado que futuro. Y echas la vista atras, mientras sonries.

David Sedaris's remarkable ability to uncover the hilarious absurdity teeming just below the surface of everyday life is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this new book of stories. Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life - the etiquette of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger or how to soundproof your windows with LP covers against neurotic songbirds - to the most deeply resonant human truths. Taking in the parasitic worm that once lived in his mother-in-law's leg, an encounter with a dingo and the purchase of a human skeleton, and culminating in a brilliant account of his attempt to quit smoking - in Tokyo - David Sedaris's sixth story collection is a fresh masterpiece of comic writing.

This collection of sharply observed animal-themed tales is a delight, told with David Sedaris's trademark blend of hilarity and goodnaturedness Though the characters may not be human, the situations in these stories bear an uncanny resemblance to the insanity of our own everyday interactions In 'The Toad, the Turtle, and the Duck', three strangers commiserate about animal bureaucracy while waiting in a complaint line...

#1-Bestseller der New York TimesDen betorend geheimnisvollen Namen Calypso teilen sich unter anderem eine griechische Meeresnymphe, ein afrikanisch-karibischer Tanzrhythmus und ein Saturnmond. Fragt man David Sedaris, ist Calypso ein besonders bescheuerter Name fur eine Katze. Aber auch ein betorend geheimnisvoller Titel fur die lang erwartete neue Geschichtensammlung eines der erfolgreichsten Humoristen unserer Zeit, der es wie kein anderer versteht, zarte Schonheit im Hasslichen zu entdecken und die banale Komik des schonen Scheins zu entlarven.Die autobiografischen Geschichten in Calypso kreisen um das solare Zentrum der Familie. In den Ferien und an Feiertagen kommt der Sedaris-Clan zusammen, im elterlichen Strandhaus, spater in David Sedaris eigener Zuflucht mit Meerblick, und flickt am generationsubergreifenden Quilt aus gescheiterten Beziehungen, tragischen Toden, spaten Einsichten - und hartnackiger Liebe zu den Freunden, die man sich nicht aussuchen kann.

David Sedaris's remarkable ability to uncover the hilarious absurdity teeming just below the surface of everyday life is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this new book of stories. Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life ? the etiquette of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger or how to soundproof your windows with LP covers against neurotic songbirds ? to the most deeply resonant human truths. Taking in the parasitic worm that once lived in his mother-in-law's leg, an encounter with a dingo and the purchase of a human skeleton, and culminating in a brilliant account of his attempt to quit smoking ? in Tokyo ? David Sedaris's sixth story collection is a fresh masterpiece of comic writing.

Genius It is miraculous to read these pieces You must read The Best of Me. Andrew Sean Greer, New York Times Book ReviewA New York Times Book Review Editors ChoiceA CNN and Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the MonthFor more than twenty-five years, David Sedaris has been carving out a unique literary space, virtually creating his own genre. A Sedaris story may seem confessional, but is also highly attuned to the world outside. It opens our eyes to what is at absurd and moving about our daily existence. And it is almost impossible to read without laughing.

David Sedaris, the champion storyteller, (Los Angeles Times) returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso.Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a maskor notwas a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes.But then the pandemic hits, and like so many others, hes stuck in lockdown, unable to tour and read for audiences, the part of his work he loves most. To cope, he walks for miles through a nearly deserted city, smelling only his own breath. He vacuums his apartment twice a day, fails to hoard anything, and contemplates how sex workers and acupuncturists might be getting by during quarantine.

Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask-or not-was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes.But then the pandemic hits, and like so many others, he's stuck in lockdown, unable to tour and read for audiences, the part of his work he loves most. To cope, he walks for miles through a nearly deserted city, smelling only his own breath. He vacuums his apartment twice a day, fails to hoard anything, and contemplates how sex workers and acupuncturists might be getting by during quarantine.

There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it.If it's navel-gazing you're after, you've come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observations turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between two men on the street; collecting Romanian insults, or being taken round a Japanese parasite museum. There's a dirty joke shared at a book signing, then a dirtier one told at a dinner party-lots of jokes here. Plenty of laughs.These diaries remind you that you once really hated George W. Bush, and that not too long ago, Donald Trump was a harmless laughingstock, at least on French TV. Time marches on, and Sedaris, at his desk or on planes, in fine hotel dining rooms and Serbian motels, records it. The entries here reflect an ever-changing background-new administrations, new restrictions on speech and conduct. What you can say at the start of the book, you can't by the end.Sedaris has been compared to Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams, Lewis Carroll and a 'sexy Alan Bennett'. A Carnival of Snackery illustrates that he is very much his own, singular self.

For more than 25 years, David Sedaris has been carving out a unique literary space, virtually creating his own genre. A Sedaris story may seem confessional, but is also highly attuned to the world outside. It opens our eyes to what is at absurd and moving about our daily existence. And it is almost impossible to hear without laughing.

For more than 25 years, David Sedaris has been carving out a unique literary space, virtually creating his own genre. A Sedaris story may seem confessional, but is also highly attuned to the world outside. It opens our eyes to what is at absurd and moving about our daily existence. And it is almost impossible to hear without laughing.