Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned (Random House Large Print) - Hardcover

Alda, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0739325523 ISBN 13: 9780739325520

Publisher: Random House Large Print, 2005

Synopsis

A dramatic and entertaining memoir by the award-winning actor and director describes growing up with a schizophrenic mother and renowned actor father, looking at the various turning points in his life and exploring the world around him with humor, adventure, love, and curiosity. (Biography)

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Review:

"'I couldn't put it down and I couldn't stop laughing'" (Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe)

"'Alda dips and weaves through his life story with bracing unpredictability, dwelling with wry humour on the ups and downs.'" (Mail on Sunday)

"Alda's account is affecting and amusing ... An infinitely more profound and stimulating study than the standard luvvie's autobiography" (Spectator)

"'[An] entertaining autobiography tempered with humility and a depth rarely found in celebrity memoirs'" (Publishers Weekly)

"'An entertaining and profound read with a strong sense of the ridiculous'" (Ireland on Sunday)

From the Publisher:

Although it does list some of the famous women he has kissed - Jacqueline Bisset, Michelle Pfeiffer, Cycely Tyson, Jane Fonda*, Ellen Burstyn and Meryl Streep - Alan Alda's autobiography is no 'kiss and tell' catalogue, but a quirkily funny, sharply observed account of an eccentric family and a very dramatic life. [Jane Fonda gets an asterisk because, even though the script called for a kiss, she woudl only shake hands.]

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Large Print
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0739325523
• ISBN 13: 9780739325520
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 385