01695cam a2200325 4500 758578670 TxAuBib 20080701120000.0 071210s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2007049021 9780316143479 hbk. $25.99 0316143472 hbk. $25.99 9780316026680 Int'l ed. 0316026689 Int'l ed. (OCoLC)183392234 DLC DLC BAKER YDXCP UPZ ZS3 C#P VP@ DLC TxGR TxAuBib Sedaris, David. When you are engulfed in flames [Book] / David Sedaris. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2008. viii, 323 p. ; 22 cm. It's catching -- Keeping up -- The understudy -- This old house -- Buddy, can you spare a tie? -- Road trips -- What I learned -- That's amore -- The monster mash -- In the waiting room -- Solution to Saturday's puzzle -- Adult figures charging toward a concrete toadstool -- Memento mori -- All the beauty you will ever need -- Town and country -- Aerial -- The man in the hut -- Of mice and men -- April in Paris -- Crybaby -- Old Faithful -- The smoking section. A collection of essays celebrates the foibles of the author's everyday life in France and America, from an attempt to make coffee with water from a flower vase to a drug purchase in a North Carolina mobile home. 20080701. American essays. Humorous stories, American. American wit and humor. Essays. RV8