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. 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. "When doctors told Art Buchwald that his kidneys were kaput, the renowned humorist declined dialysis and checked into a Washington, D.C. Illustrated with a black-and-white photographic portrait frontispiece of Art Buchwald. Includes Preliminary Page Note by Art Buchwald dated July 2006 Afterword Epilogue Index and About the Author. As new condition cream boards with gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. New, pristine, unread, first edition, first printing, in flawless new mylar-protected dust jacket. 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.
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.
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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?). Buchwald also shares his sorrows: coping with an absent mother, childhood in a foster home, and separation from his wife, Ann. 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, 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. 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. 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.
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