Baggage : tales from a fully packed life / [written and] read by Alan Cumming.
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SoundPublisher: Tullamarine, Victoria : Bolinda Audio, [2022]Copyright date: ℗2022Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 8 CDs (8 hr., 38 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in containerContent type: spoken word Media type: audio Carrier type: audio discISBN: 9781867588610Subject(s): Cumming, Alan, 1965- | Actors -- Biography | Bisexuals -- Biography | Gay men -- Biography | Motion picture actors and actresses -- Scotland -- Biography | Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography | Singers -- BiographyGenre/Form: Audiobooks. | Autobiographies. DDC classification: 792.028092 Read by the author.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. That is what this book is about, and, to remind you not to buy in to the Hollywood ending.
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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. That is what this book is about, and, to remind you not to buy in to the Hollywood ending.
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