{"product_id":"baggage-tales-from-a-fully-packed-life","title":"Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Alan Cumming \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardback, 304 pages \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRELEASED: 28\/10\/2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe release I felt in writing my first memoir, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNot My Father's Son\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut. 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. And that is what this book is about, and for: to remind you not to buy in to the Hollywood ending.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIronically maybe, much of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBaggage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e chronicles my life in Hollywood and how, since I recovered from a nervous breakdown at 28, work has repeatedly whisked me away from personal calamities to sets and stages around the world. It is also about marriage(s): starting with the break-up of my first (to a woman) and ending with the ascension to my second (to a man) with many kissed toads in between! But in everything, each failed relationship or encounter with a legend (Liza! X Men! Gore Vidal! Kubrick! Spice Girls!), in every bad decision or moment of sensual joy I have endeavored to show what I have learned and how I've become who I am today: a happy, flawed, vulnerable, fearless middle-aged man, with a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003elot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e of baggage.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hunt's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40617166012603,"sku":"","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0514\/8635\/9739\/products\/Screenshot2021-06-17at16.23.04.png?v=1623943417","url":"https:\/\/huntsbookshop.live\/products\/baggage-tales-from-a-fully-packed-life","provider":"Hunt's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}