Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays

ISBN-13:	9780316779425
Publisher:	Little, Brown and Company
Publication date:	06/01/1995
Series:	Barrel Fever , #1
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	224,983
Product dimensions:	5.56(w) x 8.18(h) x 0.56(d)

In David Sedaris's world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. Sedaris's collection of essays and stories is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban dad saves money by performing home surgery; a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a teenage suicide tries to incite a lynch mob at her funeral; a bitter Santa abuses the elves. With a perfect eye and a voice infused with as much empathy as wit, Sedaris writes stories and essays that target the soulful ridiculousness of our behavior. Barrel Fever is like a blind date with modern life, and anything can happen.