{"product_id":"me-talk-pretty-one-day","title":"Me Talk Pretty One Day - PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThis vibrant collection of expat essays from legendary humorist David Sedaris is a cause for jubiliation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSedaris's move to Paris in the early aughts inspired hilarious pieces, such as \"Me Talk Pretty One Day\", about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration—\"You Cant Kill the Rooster\" is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers and cashiers with 6-inch fingernails.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCompared by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e to Twain and Hawthorne, Sedaris is one of America's best-loved authors, and his biting essays on living in Paris are some of the funniest he's ever written. (At last, someone even meaner than the French!) The sort of blithely sophisticated, loopy humour that might have resulted if Dorothy Parker and James Thurber had a love child.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“If you’re looking for some comic relief, look no further than David Sedaris.” ―NPR\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Sedaris","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":48098176106688,"sku":"HUM-9780316776967-PB","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/9484\/2816\/files\/9780316776967.jpg?v=1734856692","url":"https:\/\/www.noblecapybara.com\/products\/me-talk-pretty-one-day","provider":"The Noble Capybara","version":"1.0","type":"link"}