# Barrel Fever

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- Book: [Barrel Fever](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-sedaris/barrel-fever) ([Barrel Fever.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-sedaris/barrel-fever.md))
- Authors: [David Sedaris](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-sedaris)
- Publisher: abacus
- ISBN: 978-03-4911-976-2
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2006-07-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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 stories and essays is a rollicking tour through the American Zeitgeist: a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a teenage suicide tried to incite a lynch mob at her funeral; and in his essays, David Sedaris considers the hazards of rewards of smoking, writing for Giantess magazine, and living with his scrappy brother Paul, aka 'The Rooster'. With a perfect eye and a voice infused with as much empathy as wit, Sedaris writes and reads stories and essays that target the soulful ridiculousness of our behaviour. Barrel Fever is like a blind date with modern life - and anything can happen.