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Happy-Go-Lucky: 'Unquestionably the king of comic writing' Guardian

David Sedaris

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'It's hard to think of a better living practitioner of hilarious honesty than David Sedaris' The Times

In Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris once again captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about recent upheavals, personal and public, and expresses in precise language both the misanthropy and desire for connection that drive us all. If we must live in interesting times, there is no one better to chronicle them than the incomparable David Sedaris.

'Unquestionably the king of comic writing'

HADLEY FREEMAN, Guardian

'Although Sedaris is famous for being funny, he does pain heartbreakingly well'

MELISSA KATSOULIS, The Times

'His wickedly hilarious riffs are pyrotechnics in words'

PETER CONRAD, Observer

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David Sedaris

David Sedaris

David Sedaris is the author of fifteen previous books, including, most recently, A Carnival of Snackery, The Best of Me, Calypso and Happy-Go-Lucky. He is a regular contributor to the New Yorker and BBC Radio 4. In 2019, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, the Jonathan Swift Prize for Satire and Humor, and the Terry Southern Prize for Humor. Sedaris lives in Sussex and travels regularly to the US.

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