Carnival of Snackery: Diaries: Volume Two

David Sedaris' diaries offer an entertaining and outward-looking perspective, featuring observations of fights, jokes, and an ever-changing background. He has been compared to various authors, showcasing his unique style.

Format: Hardback
Length: 576 pages
Publication date: 07 October 2021
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

There is no one correct method to maintain a diary, but if there is an engaging way, David Sedaris has mastered it. If you're looking for introspection, you've come to the wrong place; likewise, cloying self-analysis. Instead, his observations turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between two men on the street; collecting Romanian insults, or being taken round a Japanese parasite museum. There is a dirty joke shared at a book signing, then a dirtier one told at a dinner party - lots of jokes here. Plenty of laughs.

These diaries remind you that you once really hated George W. Bush, and that not too long ago, Donald Trump was a harmless laughingstock, at least on French TV. Time marches on, and Sedaris, at his desk or on planes, in fine hotel dining rooms and Serbian motels, records it. The entries here reflect an ever-changing background - new administrations, new restrictions on speech and conduct. What you can say at the start of the book, you can't by the end.

Sedaris has been compared to Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams, Lewis Carroll and a sexy Alan Bennett. A Carnival of Snackery illustrates that he is very much his own, singular self.

Weight: 880g
Dimension: 162 x 243 x 49 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781408707852