Me talk pretty one day
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Published
Boston : Little, Brown, 2000.
Edition
First edition.
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272 pages ; 22 cm.
Status
Moab Library - Adult Non-fiction Book
814.54 SEDARIS
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Published
Boston : Little, Brown, 2000.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English

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Me Talk Pretty One Day, tells a most unconventional life story. It begins with a North Carolina childhood filled with speech-therapy classes ("There was the lisp, of course, but more troubling than that was my voice itself, with its excitable tone and high, girlish pitch") and unwanted guitar lessons taught by a midget. From budding performance artist ("The only crimp in my plan was that I seemed to have no talent whatsoever") to "clearly unqualified" writing teacher in Chicago, Sedaris's career leads him to New York (the sky's-the-limit field of furniture moving) and eventually, of all places, France." "Sedaris's move to Paris poses a number of challenges, chief among them his inability to speak the language. Arriving a "spooky man-child" capable of communicating only through nouns, he undertakes language instruction that leads him ever deeper into cultural confusion."--from cover.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Sedaris, D. (2000). Me talk pretty one day (First edition.). Little, Brown.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Sedaris, David. 2000. Me Talk Pretty One Day. Little, Brown.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Sedaris, David. Me Talk Pretty One Day Little, Brown, 2000.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Sedaris, David. Me Talk Pretty One Day First edition., Little, Brown, 2000.

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