Writings

 

A Gift Of Laughter

 

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ALLAN SHERMAN TELLS ALL!

Here, recorded gleefully and hilariously, are the long-repressed details of one man's lifelong struggle against failure, success, women, fame, psychiatrists, parents, the Army, and the suburbs--all filtered through a keen awareness that the world may be sick and laughter is sometimes the only effective remedy.

"The title is from the opening line of Scaramouche: 'He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.' In his autobiography, Allan Sherman appears to be the maddest creature in his mad world."
--Publishers' Weekly

 

By Allan Sherman

Published: 1964

 

Contents:

1. A Yo-Yo on a Roller Coaster

2. The Drapes of Roth, and Other Things My Grandfather Pressed

3. Puberty Revisited, or Sex and the Single Me

4. Chug-a-Lugging, and Other Things I Learned in College

5. In Which I Go To New York to Seek Fame and Fortune and I Marry the Girl I Love and I declare Ware on the Lincoln Hotel and If I Tell You Any More You Won't Need To Read This chapter Altogether

6. Seven Years with the Wrong Income

7. Not So Nicely-Nicely

8. The Disorganization Man, or Up Madison Avenue with Goodson and Todman

9. The Four Faces Of Freud

10. The Compleat Fun Person: Funny Songs, Cocktail Parties, Suburbia, and Other Noisy Symptoms of Desperation

11. And Now, As I Sink Slowly in the West . . .

12. One Fire and One Flood, and Go Easy on the Pestilence

13. You Can't Be Sure If It's Westinghouse

14. Pluck and Luck, or Welcome Home, Horatio Alger

15. Allan in Wonderland

16. Now He Belongs to the Agents

17. I'll Never Forget What's-His-Name, or How It Feels to Be a Thrilling Celebrity

18. A Gift Of Laughter

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