When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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| When You Are Engulfed in Flames | |
 First edition cover |
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| Author | David Sedaris |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Essay collection |
| Publisher | Little, Brown and Company |
| Publication date | June 3, 2008 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 323 pp (first edition, hardcover) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-316-14347-2 (first edition, hardcover) |
| Preceded by | Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim |
When You Are Engulfed in Flames is a collection of essays by bestselling American humorist David Sedaris. It was released on June 3, 2008.
[edit] Synopsis
Sedaris's sixth book assembles essays on trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, associations in the French countryside, buying drugs in a mobile home in rural North Carolina, having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger on a plane, armoring windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds, lancing a boil from his backside, and venturing to Hiroshima in order to quit smoking. Little, Brown and Company issued a first-run hardcover release of 900,000 copies.
[edit] Television Appearances
Sedaris was a guest on The Daily Show on Comedy Central on June 3, 2008. During the interview he recommends moving to Hiroshima, Japan for three months in order to stop smoking. This smoking cessation method, which cost the author $23,000, is the subject of the last essay of his book. He also tells of where he got the name for his book. It was the name of a chapter in a book he had found in a hotel room while in Hiroshima.
[edit] Contents
- It's Catching
- Keeping Up
- The Understudy
- This Old House
- Buddy, Can You Spare a Tie?
- Road Trips
- What I Learned
- That's Amore
- The Monster Mash
- In the Waiting Room
- Solution to Saturday's Puzzle
- Adult Figures Charging Toward a Concrete Toadstool
- Memento Mori
- All the Beauty You Will Ever Need
- Town and Country
- Aerial
- The Man in the Hut
- Of Mice and Men
- April in Paris
- Crybaby
- Old Faithful
- The Smoking Section
