Barrel Fever

Barrel Fever

Infobox Book
name = Barrel Fever
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author = David Sedaris
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Essay and short story collection
publisher = Little, Brown and Company
release_date = June 1994
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media_type = Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
pages = 196 pp (first edition, hardcover)
isbn = ISBN 0-316-77940-7 (first edition, hardcover)
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followed_by = Naked

"Barrel Fever and Other Stories" is a 1994 collection of short stories and essays by David Sedaris. The book is divided into two sections. The first section consists of short fiction and the second half contains autobiographical essays. The most famous of the essays is "SantaLand Diaries", the essay that made Sedaris famous when he read it on National Public Radio in 1992. The essay tells of his experiences working as an elf at Macy's.

Contents

tories

# Parade
# Music for Lovers
# The Last You'll Hear from Me
# My Manuscript
# Firestone
# We Get Along
# Glen's Homophobia Newsletter Vol. 3, No. 2
# Don's Story
# Season's Greetings to Our Friends and Family!!!
# Jamboree
# After Malison
# Barrel Fever

Essays

# Diary of a Smoker
# Giantess
# The Curly Kind
# SantaLand Diaries


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