Never Have Your Dog Stuffed

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed

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Author: Alan Alda

Format: Hardback

Number of Pages: 240


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 11 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. et 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. rom 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
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Alan Alda

Format: Hardback

Number of Pages: 240


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 11 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. et 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. rom 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