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Chargement... Leaving Home (1993)par Art Buchwald
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. humorous, w/ moments of poignancy, wisdom, great read, how to face life and win. ( ) Art Buchwald's memoirs of childhood and adolescence. For a funny man, he did not have a funny childhood. He and his siblings were sheltered in various orphanages when his mother was taken away shortly after he was born. At seventeen he ran away and joined the marines, and ended up in Paris on the G.I. Bill. A fascinating memoir, superior to his columns. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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The New York Times Bestseller. "Dear readers: have I got a treat for you! Art Buchwald has written a book about his life . . . I guarantee 254 pages of pure pleasure." -- Ann Landers "Strikingly honest . . . [Buchwald] grew up in orphanages and foster homes and never knew his mother who, shortly after he was born, entered a mental hospital and spent the rest of her life there . . . . But instead of becoming a sociopath, Buchwald became a professional funnyman and a national figure whose columns skewer pretense and politicians . . . . Score one for humor as a means of survival." -- The Washington Post Book World " Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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