Calypso
CalypsoDavid Sedaris

Calypso (1900)

David Sedaris

Creators: Mixed

Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality.

ISBN:
9780316392389
Length:
272 pages

Genres: biography

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Bren Booth-Jones | Folio & Tome
Mixed

I'd say there's maybe two or three of his books that sort of stand apart in terms of their mood and their questions that they dwell upon or their very specific themes like his, you know, book of Christmas stories or his collection of essays Calypso which is quite centered around the death of his father and the sort of regret of failed relationships. a little bit more somber.

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