When You Are Engulfed in Flames
First edition cover | |
| Author | David Sedaris |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Essay collection |
| Publisher | Little, Brown and Company |
Publication date | June 3, 2008 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover), audiobook |
| Pages | 323 pp (first edition, hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0-316-14347-2 (first edition, hardcover) |
| OCLC | 183392234 |
| 814/.54 22 | |
| LC Class | PS3569.E314 W48 2008 |
| Preceded by | Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim |
| Followed by | Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary |
When You Are Engulfed in Flames is a collection of essays by American humorist David Sedaris. It was published on June 3, 2008.
Sedaris's sixth book, When You Are Engulfed in Flames assembles essays on various situations such as trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, associations in the French countryside, buying drugs in a mobile home in rural North Carolina, having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger on a plane, armoring windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds, lancing a boil from another's backside, and venturing to Japan to quit smoking. Little, Brown and Company issued a first-run hardcover release of 100,000 copies. The book was a commercial success, topping The New York Times Best Seller list for eight weeks.