Leaving Home

by Art Buchwald

Book Overview

The New York 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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0449909727
• ISBN13: 9780449909720
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

A Classic Memoir from a Classy Man

O frabjous day when I found this out-of-print edition of Buchwald's 1993 "Leaving Home" in my public library. This laugh-aloud volume is a must-read for anyone like myself who has gone through the horrors of clinical depression and come through the better for it. A compelling storyteller, he recounts with candor and lack of embarrassment many tales that would make lesser folks shudder. Great anecdotes include his de-virginization, heroics & braggadocio as a Marine Corps air pilot, continual longing for women, his dreadful childhood in an orphanage for poor kids, the family secret that his mother was institutionalized after his birth for mental illness - he never met her - and his triumphant entrance into the publishing world via the Paris Herald Tribune. A truly brave model for those wishing to write their own memoirs.

Heart warming and beautiful

Mr. Buchwald's book is heartwarming. His narrative focuses on what is truly important in life: people's feelings. Whenever I need a lift, I open this book's pages. I remember what really counts to me, and who I really am. I strongly recommend this book to everyone.