A carnival of snackery : diaries (2003-2020) / David Sedaris.
"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 observation turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between two men on the street, pedestrians being whacked over the head or gathering to watch as a man considers leaping to his death. 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 just a harmless laughingstock, at least on French TV. Time marches on, and Sedaris, at his desk or on planes, in hotel dining rooms and odd Japanese inns, records it. The entries here reflect an ever-changing background -- new administrations, new restictions on speech and conduct. What you can say at the start of the book, you can't by the end. At its best, A Carnival of Snackery is a sort of sampler: the bitter and the sweet. Some entries are just what you wanted. Others you might want to spit discreetly into a napkin." -- Book jacket.
In this follow-up to his previous volume of diaries, Theft by Finding, the award-winning humorist chronicles the years 2003-2020, charting the years of his rise to fame with his trademark misanthropic charm and wry wit.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316558792
- ISBN: 0316558796
- Physical Description: 566 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, ©2021.
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Subject: | Sedaris, David > Diaries. Authors, American > 21st century > Diaries. Humorists, American > 21st century > Diaries. |
Genre: | Autobiographies. Diaries. |
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- 41 of 43 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
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Green Free Library (Wellsboro) | 818.54 SED (Text) | 91082432 | GFWM Main Room | Available | - |
Highland Community Library | 818.54 SED (Text) | 35610000981741 | HGHM Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Huntingdon County Library | NF 818.54 SED (Text) | 30298100590748 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
Indian Valley Public Library | 808 Sedaris Humor (Text) | 39427103612677 | Nonfiction Room: Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Lower Macungie Library | 818.54 SED (Text) | 33400001526113 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Martin Library | Adults 814.54 SED Arts Literature (Text) | 33454005855507 | 2nd Floor | Available | - |
Nancy Kay Holmes Branch Library | 818.54 SEDARIS (Text) | 50686016099454 | Main Floor | Available | - |
North Pocono Public Library | 818.54 SEDARIS (Text) | 50691010931868 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
North Wales Area Library | 818.54 Sedaris (Text) | 35410000801605 | NWAL Non-Fiction | Checked Out | 05/01/2024 |
Palmerton Area Library | 818.54 Se2 (Text) | 65000000046922 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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