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Theft by finding : diaries (1977-2002)
- Title
- Theft by finding : diaries (1977-2002) / David Sedaris.
- Author
- Sedaris, David
- Publication
- New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
- Supplementary Content
- http://www.davidsedarisbooks.com/
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 17-6787 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 514 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- David Sedaris has kept a diary for forty years, recording everything that has captured his attention -- overheard comments, salacious gossip, soap opera plot twists, secrets confided by total strangers. These observations are the source code for his work, and through them he has honed his cunning, surprising sentences. Now Sedaris shares his private writings with the world. Theft by Finding, the first of two volumes, is an account of how a drug-abusing dropout with a weakness for the International House of Pancakes and a chronic inability to hold down a real job became one of the funniest people on the planet. Most diaries -- even the diaries of great writers -- are impossibly dull, because they are generally about the authors' emotions, or their dreams, or their interior life. Sedaris's diaries are unique because they face outward. He doesn't tell us his feelings about the world; he shows us the world instead, and in so doing he shows us something deeper about himself. Written with a sharp eye and ear for the bizarre, the beautiful, and the uncomfortable, and with a generosity of spirit that even a misanthropic sense of humor can't fully disguise, Theft by Finding is a potent reminder that there's no such thing as a boring day. When you're perceptive and curious, adventure waits around every corner.
- Shares the author's favorite diary entries, providing a look into the mind of a comic genius.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Diaries.
- Autobiographies.
- Gay autobiographies.
- LGBTQ+ autobiographies.
- Awards (note)
- New York Times Best Seller List.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-6787
- ISBN
- 9780316154727
- 0316154725
- LCCN
- 2016959026
- OCLC
- 960279299
- Author
- Sedaris, David, author.
- Title
- Theft by finding : diaries (1977-2002) / David Sedaris.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Awards
- New York Times Best Seller List.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-6787