'There isn't a dull word among these pages' India Knight, Sunday Times'So often Sedaris's phrasing is beautiful in its piquancy and minimalism...His life is extraordinary in so many ways - the eccentric family, the crazy jobs, the fame, the globetrotting - but one of the more unlikely achievements here is in making it all seem quite ordinary. Ultimately, his masterstroke is in acting as a bystander in his own story' Book of the Day, Guardian'It's like gossiping with an old friend - if that friend were a rather sexy American Alan Bennett with lots of good drug stories' Melissa Katsoulis, The Times'Cool, very funnv, sardonic, yet open . . . there is an echo of Truman Capote or Tennessee Williams - with extra quirk. Or even Lewis Carroll . . . one of the biggest comedy writers of his generation' Peter Bradshaw, Spectator The diaries that are the source of David Sedaris' remarkable and bestselling autobiographical stories. 'He's like an American Alan Bennett' Guardian
