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S'està carregant… Happy-Go-Lucky (edició 2022)de David Sedaris (Autor)
Informació de l'obraHappy-Go-Lucky de David Sedaris
   Books Read in 2022 (2,721) No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra.   ) jennifergeran | Dec 23, 2023 |  Review of the Little, Brown & Company audiobook edition (May 31, 2022) narrated by the author, released simultaneously with the Little, Brown & Company hardcover original. The terrible shame about the pandemic in the United States is that more than 800,000 people have died to date, and I didn’t get to choose a one of them. Happy-Go-Lucky consists of 18 recent David Sedaris monologues/mini-memoir-essays, some of them recorded in live performances. Themes and Variations (2020) appeared earlier as an Amazon Original Story which I reviewed as Funny as Ever. Several of the essays relate to the COVID lockdown era and overall there seemed to be a more bitter and curmudgeonly tone to many of them. Topics included COVID, American gun culture, mortality and death esp. the passing of Sedaris' own father etc. So there were some rather grim areas where the humour is darker than usual. Where I live now, in the UK, it’s hard to get a rifle and next to impossible to secure a handgun. Yet somehow, against all odds, British people feel free. Is it that they don’t know what they’re missing? Or is the freedom they feel the freedom of not being shot to death in a classroom or shopping mall or movie theater? In any case, I've been a long-term Sedaris fan and am ready to keep following him down the darker roads as well. Soundtrack You Want it Darker by Leonard Cohen. (  ) alanteder | Nov 23, 2023 |  ) alanna1122 | Oct 8, 2023 | Finally, with my apologies for getting hyper-pop psychology here: Over the years Sedaris has shared his father, Lou with us. Along with the disturbing aspects of Lou’s personality, Sedaris has also showed us how fully committed he has been in fulfilling his family obligations for his dad. There has always been a challenging form of love there. In Happy Go Lucky, Sedaris is surprisingly honest and, yes, bitter in his final goodbye to his father, Lou. His end of life thoughts on his life-long troubles with his dad are very very sad - and I’m sure relatable by many. All in all I feel that Sedaris certainly must know and appreciate that he is truly loved and accepted by his surviving family, his many friends, and his many many fans, but Lou’s rejection is a wound that seems to continue to mar his enjoyment of all the love and admiration in his life. Just a thought, maybe Sedaris really is Happy Go Lucky. ( ) GretchenOnHudson | Aug 29, 2023 | ) ecataldi | Jul 27, 2023 | Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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Family & Relationships.
Literary Criticism.
Nonfiction.
Humor (Nonfiction.)
HTML:David Sedaris, the "champion storyteller," (Los Angeles Times) returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso. Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a maskâ??or notâ??was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes. But then the pandemic hits, and like so many others, he's stuck in lockdown, unable to tour and read for audiences, the part of his work he loves most. To cope, he walks for miles through a nearly deserted city, smelling only his own breath. He vacuums his apartment twice a day, fails to hoard anything, and contemplates how sex workers and acupuncturists might be getting by during quarantine. As the world gradually settles into a new reality, Sedaris too finds himself changed. His offer to fix a stranger's teeth rebuffed, he straightens his own, and ventures into the world with new confidence. Newly orphaned, he considers what it means, in his seventh decade, no longer to be someone's son. And back on the road, he discovers a battle-scarred America: people weary, storefronts empty or festooned with Help Wanted signs, walls painted with graffiti reflecting the contradictory messages of our time: Eat the Rich. Trump 2024. Black Lives Matter. In Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris once again captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about these recent upheavals, personal and public, and expresses in precise language both the misanthropy and desire for connection that drive us all. If we must live in interesting times, there is no one better to chronicle them than the incomparable David Se No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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