Barrel Fever and Other Stories

"Here are images and blasphemies that nice people, and even Oprah and Phil, don't dare look at--fleshed out and told with the lucid, casual voice of intimate knowledge. Stories of cheery Christmas letters featuring infanticide, of the Gay and Famous..., of alcoholics and chainsmokers you can laugh with...Is this parody? It is...This collection is uplifting, nasty, sweet, and frightening, but at the heart of Sedaris's storytelling is humor born of compassion."David Sedaris is the author of 'Barrel Fever and Other Stories', published 1998 under ISBN 9781570426339 and ISBN 1570426333.