Theft By Finding: Diaries: Volume One

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER' He's like an American Alan Bennett in that his own fastidiousness becomes the joke as per the taxi encounter or his diary entry about waiting interminably in a coffee-bar queue' Guardian review of An Evening with David Sedaris The point is to find out who you are & to be true to that person Because so often you can't Won't people turn away if they know the real me? you wonder The me that hates my own child that put my perfectly healthy dog to sleep? The me who thinks deep down that maybe The Wire was overrated? For nearly four decades David Sedaris has faithfully kept a diary in which he records his thoughts & observations on the odd & funny events he witnesses Anyone who has attended a live Sedaris event knows that his diary readings are often among the most joyful parts of the evening But never before have they been available in print Now in Theft by Finding Sedaris brings us his favorite entries From the family home in Ralegh North Carolina we follow Sedaris as he sets out to make his way in the world As an art student & then teacher in Chicago he works at a succession of very odd jobs meeting even odder people before moving to New York to pursue a career as a writer
- where instead he very quickly lands a job in Macy's department store as an elf in Santaland Tender hilarious illuminating & endlessly captivating Theft by Finding offers a rare look into the mind of one of our generation's greatest comic geniuses