Never Have Your Dog Stuffed : And Other Things I¿ve Learned

Alda has written a memoir as elegant, funny, & affecting as his greatest performance. The son of a popular actor & a loving but mentally ill mother, he spent his early childhood backstage in the erotic & comic world of burlesque & went on, after early struggles, to achieve extraordinary success in his profession. From the moment as a boy when his dead dog is returned from the taxidermist¿s shop, & Alda learns that death can¿t be undone, to his decades-long effort to find compassion for the mother he lived with but never knew, to his acceptance of his father, both personally & professionally, Alda learns the hard way that change, uncertainty, & transformation are what life is made of, & that true happiness is found in embracing them. Photos.Alda, Alan is the author of 'Never Have Your Dog Stuffed : And Other Things I¿ve Learned', published 2007 under ISBN 9781422366127 and ISBN 142236612X.