Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself

Name: Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself
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ISBN: 9780812977523

ISBN-10: 0812977521

ISBN-13: 9780812977523

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Authors: Alan Alda

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On the heels of his acclaimed memoir,Never Have Your Dog Stuffed, beloved actor and bestselling author Alan Alda has writtenThings 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 mountaintop 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…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/9/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 258
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English




Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself



Lingering at the Door



Playing in the Street



Bandages and Badinage



The Talking and the Doing of It



A Passion for Reason



Where Is the Place of Understanding?



"Love Your Art, Poor as It May Be"



The Meaning of Life in a Glass of Water



When the Breeze Was Scarce, I Named the Boat Patience



Winning the War on Winning



Pass the Plate, Mr. Feynman



As Friends Go ...



Taking the Wider Way



Celebrity and Its Discontents



Bosco's Belly


Afterword: What Was That All About?