![]() ![]() After several extended stays in a little Norman village and in Paris, Sedaris had progressed, he observes, ""from speaking like an evil baby to speaking like a hillbilly. Sedaris also writes here about the time he spent in France and the difficulty of learning another language. Sedaris suggests that his father's punishment for being overly involved in his kids' artistic lives is David's brother Paul, otherwise known as ""The Rooster,"" a half-literate miscreant whose language is outrageously profane. ![]() Lou is a micromanager who tries to get his uninterested children to form a jazz combo and, when that fails, insists on boosting David's career as a performance artist by heckling him from the audience. Many of the 27 short essays collected here (which appeared originally in the New Yorker, Esquire and elsewhere) deal with his father, Lou, to whom the book is dedicated. Sedaris is Garrison Keillor's evil twin: like the Minnesota humorist, Sedaris (Naked) focuses on the icy patches that mar life's sidewalk, though the ice in his work is much more slippery and the falls much more spectacularly funny than in Keillor's. ![]()
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