Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself

‘Acclaimed actor and internationally bestselling author Alan Alda has written an account of some impossible questions he’s asked himself over the years: What do I value? What, exactly, is the good life? (And what does that even mean?) Alda listens in on things he’s heard himself saying at critical points in his life - from the turbulence of the 1960s, to his first Broadway show, to the birth of his children, and to the ache of September 11. He notes that 'doorways are where the truth is told’, and wonders which particular things help lead to a ‘life of meaning’. In a book that is as questioning as it is incisive, Alda amuses and moves us with his uniquely witty meditations on questions great and small.‘