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Things I overheard while talking to myself / Alan Alda

By:

Alda, Alan, 1936-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Random House , c2007.Edition: 1st edDescription: 209 p. ; 25 cmISBN:

9781400066179

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

92 ALD

LOC classification:

PN2287.A45 A3 2007

Summary: Alan Alda has written Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself, an insightful and funny look at some of the impossible questions he's asked himself over the years: What do I value? What, exactly, is the good life? (And what does that even mean?). Picking up where his bestselling memoir left off-having been saved by emergency surgery after nearly dying on a mountain top in Chile - Alda finds himself not only glad to be alive but searching for a way to squeeze the most juice out of his new life. Looking for a sense of meaning that would make this extra time count, he listens in on things he's heard himself saying in private and in public at critical points in his life - from the turbulence of the sixties, to his first Broadway show, to the birth of his children, to the ache of September 11, and beyond. Reflecting on the transitions in his life and in all our lives, he notices that "doorways are where the truth is told," and wonders if there's one thing - art, activism, family money, fame - that could lead to a "life of meaning".

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	92 ALD (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		049812

Alan Alda has written Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself, an insightful and funny look at some of the impossible questions he's asked himself over the years: What do I value? What, exactly, is the good life? (And what does that even mean?). Picking up where his bestselling memoir left off-having been saved by emergency surgery after nearly dying on a mountain top in Chile - Alda finds himself not only glad to be alive but searching for a way to squeeze the most juice out of his new life. Looking for a sense of meaning that would make this extra time count, he listens in on things he's heard himself saying in private and in public at critical points in his life - from the turbulence of the sixties, to his first Broadway show, to the birth of his children, to the ache of September 11, and beyond. Reflecting on the transitions in his life and in all our lives, he notices that "doorways are where the truth is told," and wonders if there's one thing - art, activism, family money, fame - that could lead to a "life of meaning".

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