Leaving Home
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.57 (731 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0449909727 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 254 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-20 |
| 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 . 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"
His later years would be "a lifelong search" for a surrogate mother and included two suicidal depressions. . Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. He never saw his Hungarian-born, mentally ill mother, who was institutionalized shortly after his birth in 1925. I'm going to become a humorist," he told himself), eventually fleeing to join the Marine Corps in 1942. 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. 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. It was a life with "no hugging," but Buchwald survived through h
Foster Home Childhood M. Webb 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 Ruth Z. Deming 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 cando. Dr. Wilson Trivino said No Place Like Home. 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, Buchwa