![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Where others might be tempted to pause, for fear of public censure, or simply stumbling into poor taste, Sedaris pushes on, recalling his own adolescence, coming down at night wearing briefs from which he had cut out the back with scissors, in the hope of cuddling his sleeping father. When Sedaris was living in France in his early forties, the 12-year-old son of a neighbouring family made sexual advances towards the protesting author. Take, for example, the strange and alarming “Bruised”. That the book still qualifies as humour is something of a miracle. Happy-Go-Lucky is his latest collection of essays, written across a period spanning the pandemic and the death of his father, Lou. ![]()
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