Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: David Sedaris
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Essays and memoir
- Time of Work: The late 1990's and early twenty-first century
- Setting: Raleigh, North Carolina, and France
- Principal Characters: David Sedaris, His mother, His father, His brother Paul, His sister Lisa, His sister Tiffany, His partner Hugh
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays, Wit and humor
- Subjects: Family or family life, United States or Americans, Adolescence, France or French people, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Brothers and sisters, North Carolina, Clothing or dress
- Locales: France, Raleigh, NC
In Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris continues the comic chronicles of his family, his childhood, and his adult adventures with the French. That history got its start on National Public Radio (NPR) in 1992, when Sedaris offered a comic exposé of the daily trials involved in his job as a department store elf assigned to corralling children as they lined up to tell the store Santa their Christmas wishes. Sedaris's characteristic cynicism blended with his sense of the outrageous accounts for the popularity of the four collections of essays that precede this...
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