Leaving Home
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.84 (847 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0449909727 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 254 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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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 . Score one for humor as a means of survival." -- The Washington Post Book World". But instead of becoming a sociopath, Buchwald became a professional funnyman and a national figure whose columns skewer pretense and politicians
We see the development of a young writer in a book rich in incidents and rendered in wonderfully vivid scenes: Buchwald rollerskating down Queens Boulevard, losing his virginity to a hotel chambermaid, pulling burial detail as a Marine in the Marshall Islands, aspiring to screenwriting at the University of Southern California, where he studied on the G.I. . Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. His father, a Yiddish-speaking Austrian immigrant, a drape hanger, was a devoted parent, but was forced to place the author and his sisters in foster homes. He never saw his Hungarian-born, mentally ill mother, who was institutionalized shortly after his birth in 1925. Bill, and finally sipping Pernod in Hemingway-heady Parisian cafes on the eve of the 1950s. It was a life with
M. Webb said Foster Home Childhood. Laughed a little, cried with sythpathy for what he endured in his childhood. A must read for anybody that wants to know what it's like to be without a home.. "A Classic Memoir from a Classy Man" according to Ruth Z. Deming. O frabjous day when I found this out-of-print edition of Buchwald's 199A Classic Memoir from a Classy Man O frabjous day when I found this out-of-print edition of Buchwald's 1993 "Leaving Home" in my public library. This laugh-aloud volume is a must-read for anyone like myself who has gone through the horrors of clinical depression and come through the better for it. A compelling storyteller, he recounts with candor and lack of embarrassment many tales that would make lesser folks shudder. Great anecdotes include his de-virginization, heroics & braggadocio as a Marine Corps air pilot, continual longing for women, his dreadful childhood in an orphana. "Leaving Home" in my public library. This laugh-aloud volume is a must-read for anyone like myself who has gone through the horrors of clinical depression and come through the better for it. A compelling storyteller, he recounts with candor and lack of embarrassment many tales that would make lesser folks shudder. Great anecdotes include his de-virginization, heroics & braggadocio as a Marine Corps air pilot, continual longing for women, his dreadful childhood in an orphana. No Place Like Home Dr. Wilson Trivino Not a bad story about a boy who grew up in foster homes and mother was institutionalized after his birth while dealing with a distant father. But famed writer Art Buchwald over came many mounting obstacles to have a successful career as a writer about life's peculiar happenings.In Leaving Home: A Memoir, Buchwald shares the early days as a boy, how he got a drunk bum to falsify his permission slip to join the marines. There he found out how much of a screw up he really was but being a marine opened the doors for his matriculation at USC [Univers