'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
