Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

by David Sedaris

Book Overview

David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn't it? In his newest collection of essays, David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface. His...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316010790
• ISBN13: 9780316010795
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

David Sedaris is awesome

I love all David Sedaris's books and this wone was no different, he has humor and a way that gets you so wrapped up in it that you feel like you know him. I've currently read about 6 of his books, my goal is to read then all. If you love memoirs that are light, funny, and engaging, you love his books!

HYSTERICAL!!!

I read the first chapter while I was still in the store, and I cried with laughter!!! David Sedaris is a GENIUS of comedy and wit. BUY IT, READ IT!!

David Sedaris does it again

This book is jampacked with what David Sedaris is famous for...great and interesting stories about himself and his quirky family. With marvelous wit and a somewhat sarcastic tone, Sedaris makes you believe you know his family as well as he does. A fun, quick read that can be picked up and put down at a later date, if youre able. Just alot of fun...though prudish readers may be put off at some parts. David Sedaris is someone Id love to meet just to hear his stories about his offbeat family in person.

More Poignancy than humor, but that's just fine

While not as sidesplitting in its entirety as "Me Talk Pretty One Day," this was an excellent book. Some of the pieces were still very funny, but there were some pieces that were just touching recollections. What I like is that even when DS is mocking some horrible traits shown by his family members, he also clearly loves them and that love shows through. He knows that you can love someone and not like everything that they do. There are some clearly funny places though. The author's account of his brother's cooking habits and dog training techniques made me laugh so hard I dropped the book - then I immediately took it to my friend's house so she could read it, but made her read it aloud instead of doing it myself because I know I wouldn't have been able to speak aloud for the last few pages due to the gasping for air. I also found it interesting that one of his sisters lives in my town - but my neighbor tells me this is not news, she'll introduce herself to you in the local library :) God forbid we ever have a smoking prohibition, or DS will be in Tourette hell. I believe him utterly when he says that for him, smoking is a good thing. If you like reading about imperfect people who care about each other but can be quite ludicrous, and observations of human oddity in general, this book is for you. (As are all his other books.) I found the second half of the book to be funnier than the first half.

A NOT-TO-BE-MISSED VOICE PERFORMANCE

They come in droves, no, in battalions. They're sometimes called Sedaristas or fans of the record breaking best-selling author David Sedaris. He's the fellow who has made a fortune out of relating his life as an outsider, a down-and-outer, and a gay man in a straight world. He's done it with truth, wicked humor, and an uncanny perception allowing him to turn the ordinary into over-the-top. His latest collection of short stories is now available on CD. They're read, of course, by Sedaris as only he can read them - in the voice familiar to millions on NPR. Whether he's a kid, a mom, or himself, he's in one word terrific. Many of the selections offered here were taped during live performances. "Who's The Chef?" and "Six to Eight Black Men" were taped during his sell-out appearance at Carnegie Hall, and may also be heard on "David Sedaris Live At Carnegie Hall." If you haven't heard Sedaris yet, don't waste another minute. He's an original, and he's incredibly entertaining. Laugh out loud funny, you say? That and then some. - Gail Cooke

Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!

I just finished Mr. Sedaris' new book and I thoroughly enjoyed it! I simply love reading his work. His writing is simple, detailed, hysterically funny, sad, moving, loving...the list goes on and on.One minute you will be laughing out loud to the point where you have to put the book down for a minute (I know I did) and in the next you will undoubtedly feel his writing tugging at your heart (it definitely tugged at mine).Mr. Sedaris moves from the absurd to the self-deprecating to the hysterically funny to the sad to the inspired to the poignant with such thoughtful nuance that it's difficult not to fall under his spell.Highly recommended!