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Things 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?).

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  • "An insightful and funny look at some of the impossible questions Alan Alda has 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 heard himself saying in private and in public at critical points in his life - from the turbulence of the sixties, to his first Broadway show, to the birth of his children, to the ache of September 11, and beyond. Reflecting on the transitions in his life and in all our lives, he notices that "doorways are where the truth is told," and wonders if there's one thing - art, activism, family, money, fame - that could lead to a "life of meaning". In a book that is candid, wise, and as questioning as it is incisive, Alda amuses and moves us with his unique and hilarious meditations on questions great and small."
  • "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?)."@en
  • "The popular actor looks back to reassess the meaning of his own life and the paths he has taken, from the turbulent 1960s to the tragedy of September 11, and to answer such questions as "What do I value?" and "What, exactly, is the good life?""@en
  • "The popular actor looks back to reassess the meaning of his own life and the paths he has taken, from the turbulent 1960s to the tragedy of September 11, and to answer such questions as "What do I value?" and "What, exactly, is the good life?""
  • "Presents a shrewd and funny account of some impossible questions author's asked himself over the years: what do I value? What, exactly, is the good life? (And what does that even mean?). This book amuses and moves us with his meditations on questions great and small."@en

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  • "Autobiographical reminiscences"
  • "Autobiografické vzpomínky"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Biography"

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  • "Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself"@en
  • "Things I overheard while talking to myself"@en
  • "Things I overheard while talking to myself"
  • "Co jsem zaslechl, když jsem mluvil sám se sebou : všechno ostatní, co jste se nedočetli v předchozím vzpomínání Nikdy si nedávejte vycpat svého psa"

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