Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000) by David Sedaris

2018-01-01T09:00:41-05:00

Critical Assessment "The temptation when reviewing a David Sedaris book is simply to quote liberally, and enviously, from his endless stock of pithy one-liners. A humorist par excellence, he can make Woody Allen appear ham-tongued, Oscar Wilde a drag. Me Talk Pretty One Day collects tales from both home and abroad, and picks up from where Naked--in which he first introduced his larger-than-life Technicolor family--left off. While there is an undeniable tang of reheated leftovers, Sedaris writes with the magnificent gusto of the neurotic, who, in overreaching their means, find solace in corkscrew hyperbole." David Vincent, "David Sedaris unleashes a second [...]