She even breaks the classroom’s French-only rule in order to chastise Sedaris all the more harshly: “‘I hate you,’ she said to me one afternoon. It gives a starring role to his fearsome instructor, a fount of pronouncements translating to “You exhaust me with your foolishness and reward my efforts with nothing but pain” and “Every day spent with you is like having a cesarean section.” “My French teacher faxed Andy at Esquire saying my article has had the effect of a bomb at the Alliance Française.” That piece, which became the title essay of Sedaris’s 2000 collection Me Talk Pretty One Day, tells of the French classes he took at that cultural institution’s Paris headquarters. 'Oh how I loved this book.“THE INEVITABLE finally happened,” writes David Sedaris in his diary entry of April 6, 1999. 'Fantastically funny book which gets better and better' And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers of food and cashiers with six-inch fingernails. 'You Can't Kill the Rooster' is a portrait of his brother, who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. A move to Paris from New York inspired these hilarious pieces, including 'Me Talk Pretty One Day', about his attempts to learn French from a sadistic teacher who declares that 'every day spent with you is like having a caesarean section'. A great book is essential.Ī hilarious collection of essays from 'the premier observer of our world and its weirdnesses,' New York Times bestselling author David Sedaris (Adam Kay, author of THIS IS GOING TO HURT)Īnyone who has heard David Sedaris speaking live or on the radio will tell you that a collection from him is cause for jubilation. Unified as a series - distinctive as books. A carefully and lovingly curated selection of distinctive, ground-breaking fiction and non-fiction titles published since 1950. The Hachette Essentials series comprises a collection of titles that are regarded as modern classics.
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