My incredibly wonderful, miserable life

an anti-memoir

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My incredibly wonderful, miserable life

an anti-memoir

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The funny, sad, and heartwarming memoir by Leonard Nimoy's son Adam Nimoy'who bounces back after suffering through severe drug addiction, multiple career changes, and a devastating divorce. Augusten Burroughs meets Don Rickles meets Larry David in this riveting chronicle by the son of Spock that includes a thirty-year battle with drug addiction, three career changes, one divorce, a major mid-life crisis, and countless AA meetings. In this frankly humble and hilarious anti-memoir, Adam Nimoy shares the incredibly wonderful, miserable truth about life as a newly divorced father, a forty-something on the L.A. dating scene, a recovering user, and a former lawyer turned director turned substitute teacher ... in search of his true self. And, most importantly, he shares the wonderful, miserable truth about growing up the son of a pop culture icon. He's been rushed by crazed Star Trek fans at a carnival, propositioned by his father's leading ladies, promised by his own teenage daughter that she never wants to see him again, and fired by famous television producers for his temper. In a city and amidst an industry where appearing perfect is a way of life, Adam Nimoy doesn't mince words, and My Incredibly Wonderful, Miserable Life is his cautionary, startlingly honest, and very funny tale.

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Pocket Books
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Table of Contents

Intro; Author's Note; Dedication; Telephone Call to My Mother; Power Lunch; Beginning of the End; Exactly Where I'm Supposed to be; Recipe for an Addict; First Meeting; My Dolly; The Lived Experience; Space-Man/Spider-Man; Happiness is Bird Wings; The Lisa Schwartz School of Dating; The Halls are Hell; Don't Call on me; I am Somebody; Mr. Toad and Spidey; One Step Forward; Two Steps Back; Renaissance Man; County Line; Permit me; It's Miller Time; Just Tell me It's not Over; Smile for the Camera; Monica; Fathers and Sons; Revelations; Icons have Feelings Too; God can Change you
Typical Conversation with a Teenage Daughter #214: James AgainAll's Fair in Love and World War Ii; Bar Mitzvah Time!; The Therapy Police; My New Not-So-Brilliant Career: Film School; Guest Speaker; Roll Over, Dead Senator; Flower Power Priestess; From Hell to Eternity; Syndicate This; My Mother's from Alaska; Holly; The Riv; My New Not-So-Brilliant Career: Everybody Wants to Direct; Typical Conversation with a Teenage Daughter #233: the Wonders of Call-Waiting; The Good Mother; Got Rage?; The Never-Actually-Taped Dick Cavett Interview; The Boner King; Bianca; The Space to Cry
The Thirteenth StepAll I Want is the Truth; The Best Apology; M.O.D.; Typical Conversation with a Teenage Daughter #312: Let's go to Therapy; The Somebody Girl; Holy Holly; Kid Monk Baroni; Hold for Jonah; My New Not-So-Brilliant Career: the Eyes have it; A Toast to Leroy; Number Nine, Number Nine, Number Nine; To the End of the Earth; Full Circle; Jackson and Us; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Copyright

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Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed April 6, 2015).

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Dewey Decimal Class
791.4502/8092
Library of Congress
PN2287.N55

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Pagination
1 online resource

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32127760M
Internet Archive
myincrediblywond0000nimo
ISBN 10
1416572716, 1439125465
ISBN 13
9781416572718, 9781439125465
OCLC/WorldCat
906978299

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