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<em>ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY</em> contains far more than just the funniest collection of autobiographical essays - it quite well registers as a manifesto about language itself. Wherever there's a straight line, you can be sure that Sedaris lurks beneath the text, making it jagged with laughter; and just where the fault lines fall, he sits mischievously perched at the epicenter of it all.<br> <br> <p>No medium available to mankind is spared his cultural vision; no family member (even the dynasties of family pets) is forgotten in these pages of sardonic memories of Sedaris's numerous incarnations in North Carolina, Chicago, New York, and France.</p> <p>One essay, punctuated by a conspicuous absence of s's and plurals, introduces the lisping young fifth-grader David "Thedarith," who arms himself with a thesaurus, learns every nonsibilant word in the lexicon, eludes his wily speech therapy teacher, and amazes his countrified North Carolina teachers with his out-of-nowhere and man-size vocabulary.</p> <p>By an ironic twist of fate, readers find present-day Sedaris in France, where only now, after all these years, he must cling safely to just plural nouns so as to avoid assigning the wro

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Author

Sedaris, David

Publisher

Back Bay Books, and imprint of Little, Brown and Company; Hatchette Book Group, USA

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780965031134

Category

humor

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.97 / 5 (11,326 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14