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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned Paperback - 2006
by Alan Alda
Alda has written a memoir as elegant, funny, and affecting as his greatest performances. It is a moving and funny story of a boy growing into a man who then realizes he has only just begun to grow.
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'Honest, touching and very funny - like Mr Alda himself' David Mamet, author of Glengarry Glen Ross He's one of America's most recognisable 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 Alan 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 begun to grow. It is the story of turning points in his 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 in him, personally and professionally, he learns the hard way that change, uncertainty and transformation are what life is made of, and the good life is made of welcoming them.Never Have Your Dog Stuffed, filled with curiosity about Nature, good humour 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 he's ever played on the stage or screen.
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- Title Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned
- Author Alan Alda
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Random House Trade, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date September 12, 2006
- Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780812974409 / 0812974409
- Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.22 x 0.59 in (20.32 x 13.26 x 1.50 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Actors - United States, Alda, Alan
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007270202
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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