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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed
Alan Alda
the story of a life more filled with turbulence and laughter than any Alda has ever played on the stage or screen.
And Other Things I've Learned
Random House
September 2005
On Sale: September 7, 2006
Featuring: Alan Alda
240 pages
ISBN: 1400064090
EAN: 9781400064090
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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.
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