Holidays on Ice (book)

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name = Holidays on Ice
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author = David Sedaris
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cover_artist = Jacket design by Michael Ian Kaye
country = United States
language = English
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genre = Essay and short story collection
publisher = Little, Brown and Company
release_date = December 1997
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media_type = Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
pages = 128 pp (first edition, hardcover)
isbn = ISBN 0-316-77998-9 (first edition, hardcover)
preceded_by = Naked
followed_by = Me Talk Pretty One Day

"Holidays on Ice" is a 1997 collection of essays about Christmas, some new and some previously published, by David Sedaris.

SantaLand Diaries

"SantaLand Diaries" recounts Sedaris' experiences working as an elf at Macy's department store. The essay was originally broadcast on NPR, and is also included in Sedaris' first book "Barrel Fever".

Season's Greetings to Our Friends and Family!!!

A Christmas letter from the Dunbar clan detailing matriarch Mrs. Dunbar's slow descent into insanity during the holiday season-- unbelied by her insistently cheerful tone-- as she is forced to cope with the discovery of her husband's infidelity, the resultant prostitute stepdaughter left in their care, and her drug-addict daughter's premature pregnancy. Also first published in "Barrel Fever".

Dinah, the Christmas Whore

Sedaris recalls the Christmas that he was taken on a light-night ride downtown by his sister, Lisa, to rescue a prostitute from her abusive boyfriend. This story was also published in Sedaris' 1997 book Naked.

Front Row Center with Thaddeus Bristol

A review of the local grade school's Christmas pageant. It is perfection.

Based on a True Story

Where a member of the media begs a church congregation for information on a heartbreaking story.

Christmas Means Giving

Where battling neighbors try to outdo each other with holiday generosity.