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Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself
Alan Alda
Random House
September 2007
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Featuring: Alan Alda
224 pages
ISBN: 1400066174
EAN: 9781400066179
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
On the heels of his acclaimed memoir, Never Have Your Dog
Stuffed, beloved actor and bestselling author Alan Alda
has written Things I Overheard While Talking to
Myself, an insightful and funny look at some of the
impossible questions he’s asked himself over the years: What
do I value? What, exactly, is the good life? (And what does
that even mean?)
Picking up where his bestselling
memoir left off–having been saved by emergency surgery after
nearly dying on a mountaintop in Chile–Alda finds himself
not only glad to be alive but searching for a way to squeeze
the most juice out of his new life. Looking for a sense of
meaning that would make this extra time count, he listens in
on things he’s heard himself saying in private and in public
at critical points in his life–from the turbulence of the
sixties, to his first Broadway show, to the birth of his
children, to the ache of September 11, and beyond.
Reflecting on the transitions in his life and in all our
lives, he notices that “doorways are where the truth is
told,” and wonders if there’s one thing–art, activism,
family, money, fame–that could lead to a “life of
meaning.”
In a book that is candid, wise, and as
questioning as it is incisive, Alda amuses and moves us with
his unique and hilarious meditations on questions great and
small. Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself is
another superb Alan Alda performance, as inspiring and
entertaining as the man himself.
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