Theft By Finding: Diaries (1977-2002)
by David Sedaris
Buy on AmazonFor forty years, David Sedaris has kept a diary in which he records everything that captures his attention-overheard comments, salacious gossip, soap opera plot twists, secrets confided by total strangers. These observations are the source code for his finest work, and through them he has honed his cunning, surprising sentences. Now, Sedaris shares his private writings with the world. Theft by Finding, the first of two volumes, is the story of how a drug-abusing dropout with a weakness for the International House of Pancakes and a chronic inability to hold down a real job became one of the funniest people on the planet.…
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"It’s safe to say most NPR listeners are familiar with the work of humorist David Sedaris – but who was he before he was famous? In Theft By Finding, his published diaries spanning 25 years, we find out. Sedaris shows us a broke, drugged-out, aspiring artist who spends late nights people-watching at IHOP and longing for fame. The entries are often short – it’s easy to dip in and out of the book – and we see Sedaris’ voice and humor develop before our very eyes."
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