Barrel Fever by David Sedaris [FIRST EDITION] 1994 • Little Brown & Company

Barrel Fever by David Sedaris

FIRST EDITION [1994] LITTLE BROWN & COMPANY

First Edition (6th Printing) of Sedaris' 1994 debut w/ rare NPR Santaland blurb sticker on front cover.

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.

Beautiful dust jacket with some mild shelf wear; now housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector.  

Book itself is mint.  Looks and reads like new! Tiny L.B. publisher stamp to bttm of text block. 

In David Sedaris’s world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Lebowitz, and the National Enquirer, Sedaris’s collection of essays is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban dad saves money by performing home surgery; a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a teenage suicide tries to incite a lynch mob at her funeral; a bitter Santa abuses the elves.

David Sedaris made his debut on NPR’s Morning Edition with “SantaLand Diaries”, recounting his strange-but-true experiences as an elf at Macy’s, and soon became one of the show’s most popular commentators. With a perfect eye and a voice infused with as much empathy as wit, Sedaris writes stories and essays that target the soulful ridiculousness of our behavior. Barrel Fever is like a blind date with modern life, and anything can happen.