Happy-go-lucky
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : Little Brown and Company, 2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 259 pages ; 22 cm.
Status
San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Nonfiction
814.54
1 available
814.54
1 available
Cambria Library - Adult Nonfiction
814.54
1 available
814.54
1 available
Los Osos Library - Adult Nonfiction
814.54
2 available
814.54
2 available
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Nonfiction | 814.54 | On Shelf | |
Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Nonfiction | 814.54 | Checked Out | May 7, 2024 |
Cambria Library - Adult Nonfiction | 814.54 | On Shelf | |
Los Osos Library - Adult Nonfiction | 814.54 | On Shelf | |
Los Osos Library - Adult Nonfiction | 814.54 | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Little Brown and Company, 2022.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
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"Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask—or not—was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes. But then the pandemic hits, and like so many others, he’s stuck in lockdown, unable to tour and read for audiences, the part of his work he loves most. To cope, he walks for miles through a nearly deserted city, smelling only his own breath. He vacuums his apartment twice a day, fails to hoard anything, and contemplates how sex workers and acupuncturists might be getting by during quarantine. As the world gradually settles into a new reality, Sedaris too finds himself changed. His offer to fix a stranger’s teeth rebuffed, he straightens his own, and ventures into the world with new confidence. Newly orphaned, he considers what it means, in his seventh decade, no longer to be someone’s son. And back on the road, he discovers a battle-scarred America: people weary, storefronts empty or festooned with Help Wanted signs, walls painted with graffiti reflecting the contradictory messages of our time: Eat the Rich. Trump 2024. Black Lives Matter." --publisher's website
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