Too Soon to Say Goodbye
Buchwald, Art
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BOOK SUMMARY
When doctors told Art Buchwald that his kidneys were kaput, the renowned humorist declined dialysis and checked into a Washington, D.C., hospice to live out his final days. Months later, The Man Who Wouldnt Die was still there, feeling good, holding court
BOOK SYNOPSIS
When doctors told Art Buchwald that his kidneys were kaput, the renowned humorist declined dialysis and checked into a Washington, D.C., hospice to live out his final days. Months later, The Man Who Wouldnt Die was still there, feeling good, holding court in a nonstop salon for his family and dozens of famous friends, and confronting things you usually dont talk about before you die; he even jokes about them.
Here Buchwald shares not only his remarkable experienceas dozens of old pals from Ethel Kennedy to John Glenn to the Queen of Swaziland join the partybut also his whole wonderful life: his first love, an early brush with death in a foxhole on Eniwetok Atoll, his fourteen champagne years in Paris, fame as a columnist syndicated in hundreds of newspapers, and his incarnation as hospice superstar. Buchwald also shares his sorrows: coping with an absent mother, childhood in a foster home, and separation from his wife, Ann.
He plans his funeral (with a priest, a rabbi, and Billy Graham, to cover all the bases) and strategizes how to land a big obituary in The New York Times (Make sure no head of state or Nobel Prize winner dies on the same day). He describes how he and a few of his famous friends finagled cut-rate burial plots on Marthas Vineyard and how he acquired a Picasso drawing without really trying.
What we have here is a national treasure, the complete Buchwald, uncertain of where the next days or weeks may take him but unfazed by the inevitable, living life to the fullest, with frankness, dignity, and humor.
[Art Buchwald] has given his friends, their families, and his audiences so many laughs and so much joy through the years that that alone would be an enduring legacy. But Art has never been just about the quick laugh. His humor is a road map to essential truths and insights that might otherwise have eluded us.
Tom Brokaw
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1400066271
ISBN(13-digit): 9781400066278
Dewey Decimal: 814/.54
Library of Congress: 2006049266
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 189
Paper Weight (lb): .7813 lb
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