FREE: Art Buchwald: Too Soon to Say Goodbye

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Art Buchwald: Too Soon to Say Goodbye
Hardback book in excellent condition!

Leave it to Buchwald to have a laugh at death's expense. The longtime humorist, suffering from kidney failure, checked into a Washington, D.C., hospice in early 2006. Confounding medical prediction, he rallied; his unexpected reprieve gave him the opportunity to write one more book, and as might be expected, his short, comic vignettes are slightly morbid. Buchwald first extracts the comedic potential of his funeral arrangements. The humor revolves around Buchwald's badinage with well-wishers, with whom he discusses appointments for pallbearer, eulogist, and recessional chanteuse. Teasing readers who somehow think that a person on the brink of death has a better view of what's on the other side, Buchwald spins out the conditions he expects to find in heaven, naming who he wants there (Rita Hayworth) and who he doesn't ("the lady who hijacked my parking place"). And with mock self-centeredness, Buchwald also explains how to take advantage of the kindnesses thrust one's way in a hospice. Occasional allusions to his past, luck with the opposite sex included, will fondly remind readers of Buchwald's memoir

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