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Carregando... Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years (original: 2019; edição: 2020)de Julie Andrews (Autor), Emma Walton Hamilton (Primary Contributor)
Informações da ObraHome Work de Julie Andrews (Author) (2019)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Like her first memoir this book is full of the truth to her life. From the pages you can feel her pain, her joy and her love. This allows you to have a look behind the curtain of show business and get a glimpse of what it is really like. Yet again my inspiration for Julie Andrews grows. ( ) I love memoirs and this one was recommended/selected as our April book club pick, so I was looking forward to learning about the woman who played Mary Poppins and Maria in The Sound of Music. Sadly, I was disappointed. There was more family drama in this book than in all her plays, movies, and TV specials combined. I lost patience with her impulsive, childish, hypochondriac, suicidal second husband Blake Edwards, her selfish mother, her drug-addicted brother, and how Julie repeatedly defended them as they took advantage of her generous nature. It was admirable that she continued to support them, but unfortunately she ends up as a doormat. I don't mind reading about wealthy celebrities, but an entire 300+ page book of flying back and forth from London to France to Hollywood to Switzerland, buying boats and houses, hiring nannies and tutors and psychoanalysts, as well as various relatives visiting hospital emergency rooms in almost every chapter - I was waiting for introspection and honesty and personal revelations rather than just bits and pieces fleshed out from her journals chronicling the Hollywood years. Co-authored with her oldest daughter, Emma, the book felt as if they had made an agreement that Julie would only share narrative, not how she truly felt during all the chaos and upheaval she lived through. What I learned from this memoir is a confirmation of the adage "money can't buy happiness." I knew very little about Julie Andrews other than I enjoyed a few of her movies, but came away from this memoir astonished at all that she has endured and wrestled with. For many years she was caring for her children and her husband's children, her siblings, her ill husband, both sets of parents and their spouses in addition to an aunt. "Home Work" indeed! Really honest, open and interesting book. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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HTML: In this New York Times bestselling follow-up to her critically acclaimed memoir, Home, Julie Andrews reflects on her astonishing career, including such classics as Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, and Victor/Victoria. In Home, the number one New York Times international bestseller, Julie Andrews recounted her difficult childhood and her emergence as an acclaimed singer and performer on the stage. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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