“Seeing Alexandra was sad - a big rug-rat hanging off Viva - she’ll probably turn out a mess.” But Alexandra Auder uses it as the epigraph for her impossible-to-put-down memoir, “Don’t Call Me Home,” a must-read for children of narcissistic parents. It takes guts and a sense of humor to kick off your debut memoir with an insult from Andy Warhol. “Don’t Call Me Home,” by Alexandra Auder (Viking) "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.This cover image released by Viking shows "Don't Call Me Home" by Alexandra Auder. Asimov is the candid memoir of an incomparable talent who entertained readers for nearly half aĬentury and whose work will surely endure into the future he so vividly envisioned. Here, too, is a riveting behind-the-scenes look at the varied personalities-Campbell, Ellison, Heinlein, Clarke, del Rey, Silverberg, and others-who along with Asimov helped shape science fiction.Īs unique and irrepressible as the man himself, "I. Here are his wide-ranging thoughts and sharp-eyed observations on everything from religion to politics, love and divorce, friendship and Hollywood, fame and mortality.
Here is the story of the paradoxical genius who wrote of travel to the stars yet refused to fly in airplanes who imagined alien universes and vast galacticĬivilizations while staying home to write who compulsively authored more than 470 books yet still found the time to share his ideas with some of the great
Asimov is his personal story-vivid, open, and honest-as only Asimov himself could tell it. His accessible style and far-reaching interests in subjects ranging from science to humor to history earned him the nickname "the Great Explainer." "I. Arguably the greatest science fiction writer who ever lived, Isaac Asimov also possessed one of the most brilliant and original minds of our time.
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