Too Soon To Say Goodbye [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Buchwald, Art

Published by Random House, New York, 2006

About this Item

As new condition cream boards with gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Preliminary Page Note by Art Buchwald dated July 2006; Afterword; Epilogue; Index; and About the Author. Illustrated with a black-and-white photographic portrait frontispiece of Art Buchwald. "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 Wouldn't 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 don't talk about before you die; he even jokes about them. Here Buchwald shares not only his remarkable experience - as dozens of old pals from Ethel Kennedy to John Glenn to the Queen of Swaziland join the party - but also his whole wonderful life: his first love, and 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 Noble Prize winner dies on the same day"). He describes how he and a few of his famous friends finagled cut-rate burial plots on Martha's 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." - from the inner front jacket flap. Seller Inventory # 004321

Bibliographic Details

Title: Too Soon To Say Goodbye [FIRST EDITION, ...

Publisher: Random House, New York

Publication Date: 2006

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: As New

Edition: 1st Edition