Streisand Her Life - Brossura

Spada, James

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0804111197 ISBN 13: 9780804111195

Casa editrice: Ivy Books, 1996

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A painstakingly researched tell-all chronicles the singer's rise from a lonely Brooklyn childhood to fame and fortune on Broadway and traces Streisand's notorious passion for control and power and her relationships with famous men. Reprint.

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ATING . . The story of the public's discovery of a genius and the genius's discovery of herself."
--The New York Times Book Review
"AS CLOSE TO A DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF STREISAND AS POSSIBLE. . . . The strength of Spada's book lies in his meticulous research."--Newsday
She's been a part of our lives for more than thirty-five years, her full and luscious voice defining the sound of music for a generation. Now, bestselling celebrity biographer James Spada--who interviewed more than two hundred people for this book--puts it all on the record. With compassion and honesty, Spada reveals the private Barbra Streisand, including her lonely Brooklyn childhood with a disapproving mother and abusive stepfather, her hunger to perform, the discovery of her stunning voice, and the short, hard climb that took her to the height of Broadway stardom when she was only twenty-one. Here, too, are the startling details of Barbra's obsessive need for control and power, her excessive demands

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• Editore: Ivy Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0804111197
• ISBN 13: 9780804111195
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile