When You Are Engulfed in Flames (U)

Once Again, David Sedaris Brings Together A Collection Of Essays So Uproariously Funny And Profoundly Moving That His Legions Of Fans Will Fall For Him Once More. He Tests The Limits Of Love When Hugh Lances A Boil From His Backside, And Pushes The Boundaries Of Laziness When, Finding The Water Shut Off In His House In Normandy, He Looks To The Water In A Vase Of Fresh Cut Flowers To Fill The Coffee Machine. From Armoring The Windows With Lp Covers To Protect The House From Neurotic Songbirds To The Awkwardness Of Having A Lozenge Fall From Your Mouth Into The Lap Of A Sleeping Fellow Passenger On A Plane, David Sedaris Uses Life's Most Bizarre Moments To Reach New Heights In Understanding Love And Fear, Family And Strangers. Culminating In A Brilliantly Funny Account Of His Venture To Tokyo In Order To Quit Smoking, David Sedaris's Sixth Essay Collection Will Be Avidly Anticipated.--from Publisher Description. It's Catching -- Keeping Up -- The Understudy -- This Old House -- Buddy, Can You Spare A Tie? -- Road Trips -- What I Learned -- That's Amore -- The Monster Mash -- In The Waiting Room -- Solution To Saturday's Puzzle -- Adult Figures Charging Toward A Concrete Toadstool -- Memento Mori -- All The Beauty You Will Ever Need -- Town And Country -- Aerial -- The Man In The Hut -- Of Mice And Men -- April In Paris -- Crybaby -- Old Faithful -- The Smoking Section. David Sedaris.