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He’s one of America’s most recognizable and acclaimed actors–a star on Broadway, an Oscar nominee for The Aviator, and the only real 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 make an effort to stab my father until I got six,” starts 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 continued, after early struggles, to achieve extraordinary success in his profession.
Yet Never Have YOUR PET Stuffed is not really a memoir of show-business pros and cons. It is a moving and funny story of your boy growing into a man who then realizes he has only begun to grow.
It is the story of turning points in Alda’s life, events that would make him what he is–only if 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 constructed of, and true happiness is situated in embracing them.
Never Have YOUR PET Stuffed, filled up with fascination with nature, good humor, and honesty, is the crowning achievement associated with an actor, author, and director, but surprisingly, it is the story of your life more filled up with turbulence and laughter than any Alda has ever played on the stage or screen.
From the Hardcover edition.
