David Sedaris is the author of twelve previous books, including, most recently, A Carnival of Snackery, The Best of Me, and Calypso. He is a regular contributor to the New Yorker and BBC Radio 4. In 2019, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, the Jonathan Swift Prize for Satire and Humor, and the Terry Southern Prize for Humor.
Unquestionably the king of comic writing . . . Calypso is
both funnier and more heartbreaking than pretty much anything out
there -- Hadley Freeman * Guardian *
We get more of a glimpse than we have before of what lies behind
the carapace of a writer who seems able to turn almost any
situation to comic gold . . . [an] incredibly funny and sometimes
moving meditation on love, death and family life, by a master of
his craft * Sunday Times *
Entrancing . . . This book allows us to observed not just the
nimble-mouthed elf of his previous work, but a man in his seventh
decade expunging his darker secrets and contemplating mortality . .
. The brilliance of David Sedaris's writing is that his very
essence, his aura, seeps through the pages of his books like an
intoxicating cloud, mesmerising us so that his logic becomes ours
-- Alan Cumming * New York Times *
Calypso is another triumph from the dinner-table raconteur
we all wish we could be, a writer whose lightness of touch makes
you confront the hardest of truths - and laugh out loud * Esquire
*
Hilarious and moving . . . Sedaris may well be the master of the
deadpan delivery - there's plenty of laughing out loud while you
read. But Calypso is also a tender portrait of a family,
flawed - like any other - but doing their best to love each other
-- Lucy Scholes * Independent *
This is a darker, deeper David Sedaris writing about his
sister's suicide, the inevitability of ageing and how it's
impossible to take a vacation away from yourself, but, rest
assured, he's still one of the funniest, most perceptive
writers alive
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