An Improvised Life: A Memoir
7 best books like An Improvised Life: A Memoir (Alan Arkin): In Pieces, Home: A Memoir of My Early Years, Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir, True West, Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys, Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself, Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream
| Author | Sally Field |
| ISBN | 1549143077 |
10 hours, 41 minutes
One of the most celebrated, beloved, and enduring actors of our time, Sally Field has an infectious charm that has captivated the nation for more than five decades, beginning with her first TV role at the age of seventeen.
With raw honesty and with all the humility...
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years
| Author | Julie Andrews Edwards |
| ISBN | 0786865652 |
Since her first appearance on screen in Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews has played a series of memorable roles that have endeared her to generations. But she has never told the story of her life before fame. Until now.In Home: A Memoir of My Early Years, Julie takes her readers on a warm, moving, and often humorous...
Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir
| Author | Linda Ronstadt |
| ISBN | 1451668724 |
In this memoir, iconic singer Linda Ronstadt weaves together a captivating story of her origins in Tucson, Arizona, and her rise to stardom in the Southern California music scene of the 1960s and ’70s.
Born into a musical family, Linda’s childhood was filled with everything from Hank...
| Author | Sam Shepard |
| ISBN | 0573617287 |
This American classic explores alternatives that might spring from the demented terrain of the California landscape. Sons of a desert dwelling alcoholic and a suburban wanderer clash over a film script. Austin, the achiever, is working on a script he has sold to producer Sal Kimmer when Lee, a demented...
Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys
| Author | Billy Crystal |
| ISBN | 0805098232 |
Hilarious and heartfelt observations on aging from one of America’s favorite comedians as he turns 65, and a look back at a remarkable career
Billy Crystal is turning 65, and he’s not happy about it. With his trademark wit and heart, he outlines the absurdities and challenges that come...
Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself
| Author | Alan Alda |
| ISBN | 1400066174 |
Picking up where his bestselling memoir Never Have Your Dog Stuffed left off–having been saved by emergency surgery after nearly dying on a mountaintop in Chile–beloved actor and acclaimed author Alan Alda offers an insightful and funny look at some impossible questions he’s asked himself...
Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream
A moving true story of American struggle.
Royal, Nebraska, population eighty-one—where the church, high school, and post office each stand abandoned, monuments to a Great Plains town that never flourished. But for nearly twenty years, they had a zoo, seven acres that rose from local peculiarity...
