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Baggage : tales from a fully packed life / Alan Cumming.

Baggage : tales from a fully packed life / Alan Cumming.
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B 792.028 CUMM
 Adult Non Fiction   Padstow . . On Loan . 8 May 2024
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ISBN 9781838856632 (hardback)
Name Cumming, Alan, 1965- author.
Title Baggage : tales from a fully packed life / Alan Cumming.
Published Edinburgh : Canongate, 2021.
©2021
Description 270 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.
Summary 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 prioritise 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 endeavoured 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.
Subjects Cumming, Alan, -- 1965-
Actors -- United States -- Biography
Actors -- Scotland -- Biography
Genre Autobiographies
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