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Cargando... Leaving Home (1993)por Art Buchwald
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. 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. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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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 " No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)814.54Literature English (North America) American essays 20th Century 1945-1999Clasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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