01571cam a2200229 4500 1163451931 TxAuBib 20080709120000.0 071210s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2007049021 9780316143479 0316143472 TxAuBib Sedaris, David. When you are engulfed in flames / David Sedaris. 1st ed. New York, NY : Little, Brown, 2008. viii, 323 p. ; 22 cm. Once again, David Sedaris brings together a collection of essays so uproariously funny and profoundly moving that his legions of fans will fall for him once more. He tests the limits of love when Hugh lances a boil from his backside, and pushes the boundaries of laziness when, finding the water shut off in his house in Normandy, he looks to the water in a vase of fresh cut flowers to fill the coffee machine. From armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds to the awkwardness of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a sleeping fellow passenger on a plane, David Sedaris uses life's most bizarre moments to reach new heights in understanding love and fear, family and strangers. Culminating in a brilliantly funny account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris's sixth essay collection will be avidly anticipated.--From publisher description. 20080709. TXKIP