A carnival of snackery : diaries 2003-2020
(Book on CD)
Author
Contributors
Ullman, Tracey, narrator.
Status
Main Flagstaff Public Library - Audiobooks CD or MP3
C D 818.5402 S447c
1 available
C D 818.5402 S447c
1 available
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Main Flagstaff Public Library - Audiobooks CD or MP3 | C D 818.5402 S447c | On Shelf |
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Format
Book on CD
Physical Desc
15 audio discs (17 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Compact discs.
Participants/Performers
Performed by David Sedaris and Tracey Ullman.
Description
There’s no right way to keep a diary, but if there’s an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it.
If it’s navel-gazing you’re after, you’ve come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observations turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between two men on the street, pedestrians being whacked over the head or gathering to watch as a man considers leaping to his death. There’s a dirty joke shared at a book signing, then a dirtier one told at a dinner party—lots of jokes here. Plenty of laughs.
These diaries remind you that you once really hated George W. Bush, and that not too long ago, Donald Trump was just a harmless laughingstock, at least on French TV. Time marches on, and Sedaris, at his desk or on planes, in hotel dining rooms and odd Japanese inns, records it. The entries here reflect an ever-changing background—new administrations, new restrictions on speech and conduct. What you can say at the start of the book, you can’t by the end. At its best, A Carnival of Snackery is a sort of sampler: the bitter and the sweet. Some entries are just what you wanted. Others you might want to spit discreetly into a napkin.
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Sedaris, D., & Ullman, T. (2021). A carnival of snackery: diaries 2003-2020 (Unabridged.). Hachette Book Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Sedaris, David and Tracey, Ullman. 2021. A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020. Hachette Book Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Sedaris, David and Tracey, Ullman. A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020 Hachette Book Group, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Sedaris, David,, and Tracey Ullman. A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020 Unabridged., Hachette Book Group, 2021.
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