About this title: David Sedaris' beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favourites as the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris' tales of tardy trick-or-treaters (Us and Them); the difficulties of explaining the Easter bunny to the French ...
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Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. 2 cassettes. Audience: General/trade. Complete with original case. Former library copy. Available today. Ships from the Great State of Maine. read more
Description: Very Good. 1570425671 Quality AUDIO CASSETTES in very good condition. Some shelf wear to the case, but the tapes remain intact. HAS PREVIOUSLY BEEN USED. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780316779234ISBN:0316779237
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 144 p. Audience: General/trade. Like new, crisp, clean copy. No marks or creases. read more
Description: Very Good. Back Bay Books, TPB, 1997, 9th PB printing. Light wear, clean, tight, slight curl, no markings or highlighting, small price sticker remnant on cover. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780316779234ISBN:0316779237
Description: Very good. Never read. Perfect shape. Front cover a little scuffed. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 144 p. Audience: General/trade. "Six of David Sedaris's most profound Christmas stories in one slender volume". read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780316779234ISBN:0316779237
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780316779234ISBN:0316779237
Description: Fine. 5 x 7 trade paperback book. Red and purple lettering on the white spine with a white/illustrated cover. Holidays on Ice collects six of David Sedaris's most profound Christmas stories into one slender volume. 134 pages. Clean with tight binding. Fine condition. read more
Description: Excellent. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Torn pages: NO ] [ Broken Seams: NO ] Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub Date: 11/1/1998 Binding: Paperback Pages: 144. read more
Description: Good. Publishers Overstock. A Good copy with a Remainder Mark and wear to the extremities. There is a small tear on the dust jacket and chipping to the edges. read more
"I'm generally a big fan of David Sedaris' satirical outlook on life and enjoy his perceptive insights into human foibles. Holidays on Ice is one of his earlier works and is a little uneven. His account of being a Christmas Elf is priceless but some of the other pieces were a little too dark for my taste. Overall a mixed bag."
Not to mention that in this book, Sedaris is discussing one of his funniest topics - family.
This book is worth reading if for no other reason than for the Dunbar family holiday newsletter. You know the cheesy, bragging, generic letters you get from some people around the holidays? The kind that are supposed to sum up the entire past year (well the good parts anyway)? Yeah, this makes a total mockery of it and I DARE you not to crack up when they gloss over their daughter giving birth to a crack baby, and the introduction to the newest family member, 22- year-old Khe Sahn Dunbar - product of Mr. Dunbar's, daddy dearest, time in Vietnam where he "accidentally planted the seeds for Khe Sahn." Follow Khe Sahn as he learns his first and favorite english phrase - "Five dollar now!" You'll feel guilty about giggling after reading about Khe Sahn's atypical means for "washing" crack baby Don.
If you're spending some "quality" time with the fam around the holidays, this is the perfect book to get you through it, to even perhaps realize that your family isn't so bad after all. But you don't have to wait until the holiday season to enjoy this quick-read gem."
"I became a fan of David Sedaris last year, and when my sister gave me this collection of holiday-themed stories and essays I jumped right in. The pieces range from ostensibly autobiographical to completely fabrcated. One may tell the fictional (not to mention absurd) tale of two rich families trying to outdo each other in attempts at hoarding more holiday spirit, and another recounts the soul-crushing time Sedaris spent employed as a Christmas Elf at Macy's department store.
Much like with his other books, my reactions to individual pieces ranged from "meh" to shrieking laughter. Some of them did nothing for me, and at least one of them --a faux holiday newsletter from a mentally unstable Stepford Wife-- turned out to be perplexingly tragic rather than funny. But on the other hand, the aforementioned story about the families competing over who can give more away was great, and the essay entitled "Six to Eight Black Men" about the ironic absurdity of Dutch Christmas traditions is one of the funniest things I've ever read.
My main complaint about Holidays on Ice is that it was an already short book made shorter by the fact that it contained several pieces by Sedaris that are published in other collections. I literally hit a block of these several dozen pages long towards the back, which brought the book to an unexpected (for me) end. Even still, they were worth a re-read."
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