Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned (Biography)

Alda, Alan [born: Alphonse Robert Alda]

ISBN 10: 0739325523 / ISBN 13: 9780739325520

Verlag: Random House Large Print, New York, 2005

Beschreibung

8 VO, 385 pp. [Large Print Edition] First Edition, First Printing, thus. Inscribed " Dec 25th, '05 To Dave, from," by third party, and then signed "Alda" by the author. Lightly read, no marks or other damage to book, text or jacket.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1506501

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned (Biography)
• Verlag: Random House Large Print, New York
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0739325523
• ISBN-13: 9780739325520
• Einband: Hardcover
• Illustrator: several pages of personal photo-history.
• Zustand: Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine
• Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

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Inhaltsangabe

He’s one of America’s most recognizable and acclaimed actors–a star on Broadway, an Oscar nominee for The Aviator, and the only person to ever win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing, during his eleven years on M*A*S*H. Now Alan Alda has written a memoir as elegant, funny, and affecting as his greatest performances.

“My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six,” begins Alda’s irresistible story. The son of a popular actor and a loving but mentally ill mother, he spent his early childhood backstage in the erotic and comic world of burlesque and went on, after early struggles, to achieve extraordinary success in his profession.

Yet Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is not a memoir of show-business ups and downs. It is a moving and funny story of a boy growing into a man who then realizes he has only just begun to grow.

It is the story of turning points in Alda’s life, events that would make him what he is–if only he could survive them.

From the moment as a boy when his dead dog is returned from the taxidermist’s shop with a hideous expression on his face, and he learns that death can’t be undone, to the decades-long effort to find compassion for the mother he lived with but never knew, to his acceptance of his father, both personally and professionally, Alda learns the hard way that change, uncertainty, and transformation are what life is made of, and true happiness is found in embracing them.

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed, filled with curiosity about nature, good humor, and honesty, is the crowning achievement of an actor, author, and director, but surprisingly, it is the story of a life more filled with turbulence and laughter than any Alda has ever played on the stage or screen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Alan Alda played Hawkeye Pierce for eleven years in the television series M*A*S*H and has acted in, written, and directed many feature films. He has starred often on Broadway, and his avid interest in science has led to his hosting PBS’s Scientific American Frontiers for eleven years. He was nominated for an Academy Award in 2005 and has been nominated for thirty Emmy awards. He is married to the children’s book author/photographer Arlene Alda. They have three grown children and seven grandchildren.