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The Best of Me

By: David Sedaris
Narrated by: David Sedaris
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Publisher's summary

What could be a more tempting Christmas gift than a compendium of David Sedaris' best stories, selected by the author himself? From a spectacular career spanning almost three decades, these stories have become modern classics and are now for the first time collected in one volume.

The collection will also feature an introduction by the author; two never-before-collected stories, 'Unbuttoned' and 'Undecided'; and a new interview with David Sedaris.

Table of contents:

  • 'Glen's Homophobia Newsletter Vol. 3, No. 2'
  • 'Front Row Center with Thaddeus Bristol'
  • 'Christmas Means Giving'
  • 'The Incomplete Quad'
  • 'You Can't Kill the Rooster'
  • 'Me Talk Pretty One Day'
  • 'Jesus Shaves'
  • 'Us and Them'
  • 'Let It Snow'
  • 'The Ship Shape'
  • 'The Girl Next Door'
  • 'Repeat After Me'
  • 'Six to Eight Black Men'
  • 'Possession'
  • 'Nuit of the Living Dead'
  • 'The Understudy'
  • 'In the Waiting Room'
  • 'Solution to Saturday's Puzzle'
  • 'Town and Country'
  • 'The Cat and the Baboon'
  • 'The Motherless Bear'
  • 'The Faithful Setter'
  • 'Dentists Without Borders'
  • 'Think Differenter'
  • 'Memory Laps'
  • 'Loggerheads'
  • 'If I Ruled the World'
  • 'Easy, Tiger'
  • 'Laugh, Kookaburra'
  • 'A Guy Walks into a Bar Car'
  • 'Standing By'
  • 'Understanding Understanding Owls'
  • 'Now We Are Five'
  • 'A House Divided'
  • 'The Perfect Fit'
  • 'Leviathan'
  • 'A Modest Proposal'
  • 'Why Aren't You Laughing?'
  • 'The Spirit World'
  • 'Unbuttoned'
©2020 David Sedaris (P)2020 Hachette Audio UK

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Highly enjoyable with an excellent bonus interview

This was a great ‘best of’ collection. I very much enjoyed that some of the stories were taken from live recordings with an audience.
As ever, I’m not as keen on the fiction stories, for me Sedaris’s main talent is for non-fiction.
A Great Listen! Recommended

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