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Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir

Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir Paperback - 2010

by Buckley, Christopher

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Bestselling author Buckley's most personal and transcendent work--the tragicomic true story of the year in which he lost both of his parents. The author offers consolation, wit, and warmth to those coping with the death of a mother or father.

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  • Title Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir
  • Author Buckley, Christopher
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Twelve, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2010-05-13
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR002855507
  • ISBN 9780446540957 / 0446540951
  • Weight 0.51 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 6.32 x 0.73 in (20.32 x 16.05 x 1.85 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Death/Dying
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Parents - Death - Psychological aspects, Authors, American - 20th century - Family
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • New York Times Book Review, 06/20/2010, Page 20

About the author

Christopher Buckley was born in New York City in 1952. He was educated at Portsmouth Abbey, worked on a Norwegian tramp freighter and graduated cum laude from Yale. At age 24 he was managing editor of Esquire magazine; at 29, chief speechwriter to the Vice President of the United States, George H.W. Bush. He was the founding editor of Forbes FYI magazine (now ForbesLife), where he is now editor-at-large.

He is the author of fifteen books, which have translated into sixteen languages. They include: Steaming To Bamboola, The White House Mess, Wet Work, God Is My Broker, Little Green Men, No Way To Treat a First Lady, Florence of Arabia, Boomsday, Supreme Courtship, Losing Mum And Pup: A Memoir and Thank You For Smoking, which was made into a movie in 2005. Most have been named New York Times Notable Books of the Year.

He has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Time, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, National Geographic, New York Magazine, the Washington Monthly, Forbes, Esquire, Vogue, Daily Beast, and other publications.

He received the Washington Irving Prize for Literary Excellence and the Thurber Prize for American Humor. He lives in Connecticut.