Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules

Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules

Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules

Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules

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Overview

A must-have for the fans of the #1 bestselling author of Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris, a collection of his favorite short fiction from Flannery O'Connor to Tobias Wolff.

David Sedaris is an exceptional reader. Alone in his apartment, he reads stories aloud to the point he has them memorized. Sometimes he fantasizes that he wrote them. Sometimes, when they’re his very favorite stories, he’ll fantasize about reading them in front of an audience and taking credit for them. The audience in these fantasies always loves him and gives him the respect he deserves.

David Sedaris didn’t write the stories in Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules . But he did read them. And he liked them enough to hand pick them for this collection of short fiction. Featuring such notable writers as Lorrie Moore, Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates, Jean Thompson, and Tobias Wolff, Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules includes some of the most influential and talented short story writers, contemporary and classic.

Perfect for fans who suffer from Sedaris fever, Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules will tide them over and provide relief.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780743273947
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 04/04/2005
Edition description: Original
Pages: 352
Sales rank: 856,045
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.44(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

About The Author
David Sedaris is the author of the internationally bestselling Barrel Fever, Naked, Holidays on Ice, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, and Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk.

David Sedaris is the author of the internationally bestselling Barrel Fever, Naked, Holidays on Ice, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, and Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk.

Hometown:

London, England

Date of Birth:

December 26, 1956

Place of Birth:

Johnson City, New York

Education:

B.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1987

Table of Contents

Introduction1
Oh, Joseph, I'm So Tired9
Gryphon37
Interpreter of Maladies57
The Garden Party83
Half a Grapefruit101
Applause, Applause121
I Know What I'm Doing About All the Attention I've Been Getting141
Where the Door Is Always Open and the Welcome Mat Is Out145
The Best of Betty165
Song of the Shirt, 1941189
The Girl with the Blackened Eye199
People Like That Are the Only People Here: Canonical Babbling in Peed Onk213
Revelation251
In the Cemetery Where Al Jolsen Is Buried277
Cosmopolitan289
Irish Girl317
Bullet in the Brain331
Epilogue: About 826NYC339
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