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Book SynopsisHe''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 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 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.
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 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.
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Trade 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 *
