Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules [Unabridged Selections]
by David Sedaris
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules is a collection of short stories-some classic, others impending-selected and introduced by David Sedaris.With this audiobook a careful listener can discover the truth about loneliness, betrayal, love and hope.Where the Door is Always Open and the Welcome Mat is Outby Patricia Highsmith, read by Cherry JonesBullet In the Brain by Tobias Wolffread by Toby WherryGryphon by Charles Baxterread by David SedarisIn the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried show more by Amy Hempelread by Mary-Louise ParkerCosmopolitan by Akhil Sharmaread by the Author show lessTags
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David Sedaris was born in Binghamton, New York on December 26, 1956, but he grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Much of Sedaris' humor is autobiographical and self-deprecating, and it often concerns his family life, his middle class upbringing in the suburbs of North Carolina. He graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1987. He is a popular show more radio commentator, essayist, and short story writer. He held many part-time and odd jobs before getting a job reading excerpts from his diaries on National Public Radio in 1992. His first collection of essays and short stories, Barrel Fever, was published in 1994. His other works include Naked, Holidays on Ice, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary, Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002), and Calypso. Me Talk Pretty One Day won the Thurber Prize for American Humor in 2001. He has also written several plays with his sister Amy Sedaris including Stump the Host, Stitches, and The Little Frieda Mysteries. In 2014 her title, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules [Unabridged Selections]
- Alternate titles
- Where the Door is Always Open and the Welcome Mat is Out / Patricia Highsmith, read by Cherry Jones; Bullet In the Brain / Tobias Wolff, read by Toby Wherry; Gryphon / Charles Baxter, read by David Sedaris; In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried / Amy Hempel, read by Mary-Louise Parker; Cosmopolitan / Akhil Sharma, read by the Author
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- This audiobook contains unabridged readings of five selected stories from the book of the same title. It does not contain all of the stories, and can therefore be considered abridged. It should not be combined with the book w... (show all)hich contains many more stories.
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