Going to Meet the Man: Stories Self-Help Reverend Ames writes to his

Reverend Ames writes to his son about the tension between his father--an ardent pacifist--and his grandfather

sci-fi fantasies - Vineland emerges as what Salman Rushdie has called in the New York Times Book Review "that rarest of birds: a major political novel about what America has been doing to itself

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But if all you expect to find in Sedaris's work is the deft and sharply observed comedy for which he became renowned

Going to Meet the Man: Stories Self-Help Reverend Ames writes to his"There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their head above water. It may be the heroin that a down and out jazz pianist uses to face the terror of pouring his life into an inanimate instrument. It may