Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim

Critics Review

• So often Sedaris’s phrasing is beautiful in its piquancy and minimalism…His life is extraordinary in so many ways – the drug addiction, 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

  Guardian

• He makes me laugh so much. In an era when US satire is outpacing our own he’s a sharp, humane and hilarious voice that never fails to make you smile – and sometimes weep. Apparently effortless humour is difficult, and precious. He’s the real thing

  Radio Times

• A deadpan, darkly comical portrait of the American underbelly . . . Sedaris shares something of [Alan] Bennett’s detached curiosity, and they both have a thirst for amusement

  Mail on Sunday

• These are scenes of family life at its best, written with clarity but also with great affection, through which the character of the author emerges, watchful, self-mocking and full of understanding.

  TLS

• This is a man who could capture your heart and lift your spirits while reading out the ingredients of a rice cake. OBSERVER

  'Mr Sedaris's humour is dry, witty and consistently successful.'

• ECONOMIST

  'Sedaris is like an updated Thurber: domestic, laconic, slightly warped but never bitter, and extremely funny.'

• CULTURE, SUNDAY TIMES

  'His best, funniest, most satisfying book.'