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03054aim a2200433Ki 4500 001 51E5B1363C6B11ECA88955E950ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211103010016 007 sd fungnnmmneu 008 210927s2021 nyunnnn a n eng d 020 $a 0063138697 020 $a 9780063138698 035 $a (OCoLC)1269269643 040 $a TEFMT $b eng $e rda $c TEFMT $d TEF $d OCLCO $d TEFMT $d IOU $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a PN2287.C692 $b A3 2021ab 082 04 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Cumming, Alan, $d 1965- $e narrator. $e narrator. 245 10 $a Baggage / $c Alan Cumming. 250 $a Retail edition. 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a [New York] : $b Harper Collins Publishers, $c [2021] 300 $a 8 audio discs (8.75 hr.) : $b CD audio, digital ; $c 4 3/4 in. 306 $a 084500 500 $a Title from disc surface. 511 0 $a Read by the author. 500 $a Compact discs. 520 $a There is absolutely no logical reason why I am here. The life trajectory my nationality and class and circumstances portended for me was not even remotely close to the one I now navigate. But logic is a science and living is an art. The release I felt in writing my first memoir, Not My Father's Son, was matched only by how my speaking out empowered so many to engage with their own trauma. I was reminded of the power of my words and the absolute duty of authenticity. But, no one ever fully recovers from their past. There is no cure for it. You just learn to manage and prioritize it. I believe the second you feel you have triumphed or overcome something, an abuse, an injury to the body or the mind, an addiction, a character flaw, a habit, a person, you have merely decided to stop being vigilant and embraced denial as your modus operandi. And that is what this book is about, and for: to remind you not to buy in to the Hollywood ending. Ironically maybe, much of Baggage chronicles my life in Hollywood and how, since I recovered from a nervous breakdown at 28, work has repeatedly whisked me away from personal calamities to sets and stages around the world. It is also about marriage(s): starting with the break-up of my first (to a woman) and ending with the ascension to my second (to a man) with many kissed toads in between! But in everything, each failed relationship or encounter with a legend (Liza! X Men! Gore Vidal! Kubrick! Spice Girls!), in every bad decision or moment of sensual joy I have endeavored to show what I have learned and how I've become who I am today: a happy, flawed, vulnerable, fearless middle-aged man, with a lot of baggage. 650 4 $a Books on compact disc, Unabridged. 600 10 $a Cumming, Alan, $d 1965- 650 0 $a Actors $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Singers $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Gay men $z United States $v Biography. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 945 $a cdab 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20211103010141.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=51E5B1363C6B11ECA88955E950ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search