Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned

Heâ€™s one of Americaâ€™s most recognizable and acclaimed actorsâ€“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.

â€œMy mother didnâ€™t try to stab my father until I was six,â€ begins Aldaâ€™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 Aldaâ€™s life, events that would make him what he isâ€“if only he could survive them.

From the moment as a boy when his dead dog is returned from the taxidermistâ€™s shop with a hideous expression on his face, and he learns that death canâ€™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.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Brand Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer Random House Trade Paperbacks
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780812974409
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2006-09-12
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780812974409

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer	Random House Trade Paperbacks
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780812974409
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2006-09-12
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780812974409

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned

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