Leaving Home - Hardcover

Buchwald, Art

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399138641 ISBN 13: 9780399138645

Publisher: Putnam Adult, 1994

Synopsis

The renowned humorist describes his difficult childhood in foster homes, the wanderlust that took him from New York's Hebrew Orphan Asylum to Paris, and his years in Paris. 85,000 first printing. $60,000 ad/promo.

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From the Inside Flap:

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
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From AudioFile:

Funny people don't always have funny childhoods. Leaving Home is Buchwald's tale of a painful childhood, which took him from various shelters to a series of foster homes to New York's Hebrew Orphan Asylum --all before age fifteen. His story is compelling, and he tells it in his own indescribable way. Buchwald relates the story as if conversing over a cup of coffee. There's no attempt at vocal characterization because the characters are richly described through the text. You'll come away wishing for the unabridged version because Buchwald's story is so compelling. M.R. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Adult
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0399138641
• ISBN 13: 9780399138645
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 254