Barbra Streisand has been center stage for the past 45 years and is the very definition of a superstar. She is a singer, actress, director, producer, and political activist and has won just about every major award there is.
A new biography traces her eventful life, chronicling everything from Streisand’s early days trying to get a break into showbiz, to her triumphant return concert in Las Vegas in 1999. Christopher Andersen will tell you more about Barbra Streisand in Barbra - The Way She Is.
Funny, I don’t feel like a legend.
– Barbra Streisand
She is a one-name legend, a global icon, the ultimate diva. Yet most of what we know about Barbra Joan Streisand is the stuff of caricature: the Brooklyn girl made good, the ugly duckling who blossomed into a modern-day Nefertiti, the political dilettante driving to the barricades in her Rolls-Royce, the Oscar-winning actress and bona fide movie mogul, the greatest female singer who ever lived, a skinflint, a philanthropist, a connoisseur and a barbarian, the woman whose physical characteristics are instantly identifiable around the planet — the tapered nails, those slightly crossed eyes, that nose, the voice.
Even to the multitudes around the world who idolize her, Streisand remains aloof, unknowable, tantalizingly beyond reach. Until now. In the manner of his #l New York Times bestsellers The Day Diana Died and The Day John Died as well as Jack and Jackie, Jackie After Jack, An Affair to Remember, and Sweet Caroline, Christopher Andersen taps into important sources — eyewitnesses to Streisand’s remarkable life and career — to paint a startling portrait of the artist . . . and the woman.
【作者介绍】
Christopher Andersen is the critically acclaimed author of twenty-six books that have been translated into more than twenty languages worldwide. A former contributing editor of Time and senior editor of People, Andersen has also written hundreds of articles for a wide range of publications, including Life magazine, the New York Times, and Vanity Fair.
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