Holidays on Ice

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• The Funniest Elf

  Along with watching clips from “The Daily Show” on YouTube and eating organic vegetables lugged home in reusable canvas sacks, having a shelf full of books by David Sedaris has become a requisite part of American ­middle-aged, upper-middle-class urba ... (read full critics)

  nytimes published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

• Holidays on Ice By David Sedaris

  David Sedaris has added six new holiday - themed stories to his wildly witty, updated Holidays on Ice, which he reads as only he can. ... (read full critics)

  bookpage published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

3 Reviews

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  This is a combination of funny memoir type essays and a few bits of short fiction. The short fiction is almost entirely awful, but the essays - "Santaland Diaries" and "Six to Eight Black Men" in particular - are fantastic.

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  Holidays on Ice

  I enjoyed the author's observations working as a holiday elf very much. Didn't care much for the following essays though.

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  Readingrat said on Dec 9, 2009 | Add your feedback

• A New Holiday Tradition

  I first read this book in print about 8 years ago and fell in love with Sedaris' irreverent take on the Christmas holiday. Shortly after I discovered the audio version, narrated by Sedaris himself, and listening to it has become a holiday tradition. The SantaLand Diaries are particularly good.

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• English Books
• Paperback 144 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0316779237
• ISBN-13: 9780316779234
• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Pub date: Nov 01, 1998
• Dimensions: 1161 mm x 839 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette and Others
• In other languages: other languages Deutsche Bücher, Libri Italiani

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