BEST OF ME

We all love David Sedaris' radio shows with his dry, well-timed humour and here is more impossible silliness when he writes about real people and events, or are they fictional? Collected in one volume he brings together his funniest and most memorable work as he shops for rare taxidermy, hitchhikes with a lady quadriplegic, and spits a lozenge into a fellow traveller?s lap. He drowns a mouse in a bucket, struggles to say 'Give it to me' in five languages, and hand-feeds a carnivorous bird. He explores falling in love and staying together recognising his own ageing not in the mirror but in the faces of his siblings, losing one parent and coming to terms at long last with the other. His French lessons are genuinely hilarious and his confessional anecdotes very moving, sometimes wildly inappropriate and gross like the tampon-eating dog and the tramp in the Christmas Means Giving chapter. Desirable US roughcut 388 pages, 2020 US first edition.