5/13/2023 0 Comments Sedaris me talk prettyHe watches Hollywood classics in the cinemas, and dreams of America. France becomes a viewing platform for droll observations of his homeland. When boyfriend Hugh, who excites Sedaris by baking apple pie to country music on a Friday night in Manhattan, mentions his property in France, the prospect of self-exiled helplessness is irresistible. He may not be able to wire a plug, but no matter he can describe the lack swooningly. His determined Luddism is a healthy riposte to Laddism - only television, the crucible of his dreams, and its soap operas, escape his vitriol. The flipside is the attainment of a vocabulary beyond his years, which he still deploys with enviable grace, as he embraces aestheticism with a narcissist glee. Sedaris squirms to avoid 's', speaking with a mouthful of alphabet soup minus one letter. 'Go Carolina' sees the youthful Sedaris coached by Agent Samson, a speech therapist, to overcome his lisp. Like the bored child he says he was when growing up, Sedaris tweaks tales incorrigibly, such as when detailing his father's predilection for hoarding food until it's rotten, or when, with preening self-parody, he mocks an earlier incarnation as a performance artist.ĭivided into 'One' and 'Deux' (which he thoughtfully translates), the most successful stories involve reminiscences of his suburban childhood. 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.
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