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My Judy Garland Life: A Memoir by Boyt, Susie
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- Objectstaat
- Goed
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
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- ISBN
- 1596916664
- Book Title
- My Judy Garland Life : a Memoir
- Item Length
- 7.4in
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Personal Memoirs, Entertainment & Performing Arts
- Item Width
- 5.8in
- Item Weight
- 13.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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An irresistible mixture of memoir, biography, cultural analysis, hero worship, and sequinstudded self-help that will speak to anyone who's ever nursed an obsession. Judy Garland has been an important figure in Susie Boyt's life since she was three years old: comforting, inspiring, and at times disturbing her. In this unique book, Boyt travels deep into the underworld of hero worship, examining our understanding of rescue, consolation, love, grief, and fame through the prism of Judy. Her journey takes in a duetting breakfast with Mickey Rooney, a munchkin luncheon, a latenight spree at the Minnesota Judy Garland Museum, and a breathless, semi-sacred encounter with Liza Minnelli. Layering key episodes from Garland's life with defining moments from her own, Boyt explores with insight and humor what it means, exactly, to adore someone you don't know. Does hero worship have to be a pursuit that's low in status or can it be performed with pride and style? Are there similarities that lie at the heart of all fandom? Chronicling her obsession, Boyt illuminates her own life and perfectly distills why Judy Garland is such a legend.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10
1596916664
ISBN-13
9781596916661
eBay Product ID (ePID)
70940725
Product Key Features
Book Title
My Judy Garland Life : a Memoir
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Entertainment & Performing Arts
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.4in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
13.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ml420.G253b69 2009
Reviews
No doubt about it, the engaging My Judy Garland Life promises to be one of the most unusual, and truly inventive, books you'll read this year... You don't need to be a fan of Judy Garland to enjoy this book., Boyt has written an effusive exegesis of her own obsession, offering a fresh take on fandom and fantasy, longing and humiliation, loss and joy, and quite simply feeling... the author is funny and self-aware throughout, and anyone who has ever fallen sway to a book or a movie, combed through liner notes, listened to a song on repeat or succumbed to an all-consuming passion for that which cannot be consumed, will certainly appreciate Boyt's examination and celebration of her own fervor., [ My Judy Garland Life ] is an unusual mixture of appreciation, biography and autobiography, but its most fascinating aspect, is, paradoxically, not the shimmer of the star, but the portrait that emerges, via a tantalizing trail of revelations, of the author herself... unfailingly funny and perceptive... [a] thoroughly delightful book., By turns clever, hilariously ironical and sweetly earnest, English novelist Boyt's paean to the legendary singer and actress elevates hero worship to the role of self improvement.... Boyt's hagiography proves poetic and endearing., Beautiful, moving, and unique...blends autobiography with biography to create something magical, poetic, and truly original. As we follow the intertwining of two stories, and the meditations on the dreams, hopes, losses, and joys of human life, we realize that it is about much more than two people--it is about all of us., Boyt's obsession with Judy Garland is more than a memoir; it analyzes celebrity, how it affects us and succeeds in making star crushes feel noble, not shameful. A funny and moving look at pop culture., A cross between a fan's notes and a heartfelt story of a lonely British girl who found more love and inspiration in one movie star than in anyone closer to home., Never mind that Ms. Garland died when Ms. Boyt was 5 months old. In My Judy Garland Life Ms. Boyt constructs a fan's-eye friendship between the two of them and actually makes it work... [A] wildly bizarre but wonderfully disarming hybrid of memoir, biography and mash note... My Judy Garland Life runs on whimsy that is utterly idiosyncratic. It's also fueled by a comic, poignant desperation..., The desire to create something profound out of something seemingly superficial makes for an extremely strange but rather wonderful undertaking. The book defies definition. It has elements of biography, autobiography, self-help and fan letter; although it's firmly nonfiction, there are parts that read like a novel. Above all, it is a bold experiment that sets out to map the boundaries of celebrity obsession, and somewhere along the way discovers what it means to be human...beautiful, heart-stopping writing., What a self-deprecating, funny, moving, entertaining read it is...Can cynicism really be so simply out-argued? Can a book really be so analytical and high-kicking, so fragile and defiant at the same time? A...truly altruistic piece of modern thought, this wonderfully clever books gives its whole self, flings its arms out in a rainy street like a wonderful diva. Brava ., "By turns clever, hilariously ironical and sweetly earnest, English novelist Boyt's paean to the legendary singer and actress elevates hero worship to the role of self improvement. As a sensitive, conscientious, overweight youngster growing up in London, Boyt-painter Lucian Freud's daughter, although her parents split up before she was born in 1969-learned early on through listening to Judy's thrilling, moving singing that 'the person with the strongest feelings in life is to be the best.' Boyt moves through Judy's rich, complex career and increasingly unraveling personal saga while sounding important themes that resonated in Boyt's own life: being early stagestruck (Boyt reckons she attended "almost 2,000 dance classes" as a youth); feeling unwanted; needing to rescue others in crisis and to conso≤ and dealing with the drama of drug addicts. Boyt has managed to interview many of the survivors in Judy's story, such as Liza Minnelli, Joe Luft and Mickey Rooney; she pilgrimaged to Judy's birthplace in Grand Rapids, Minn., and her burial site in Westchester, N.Y., and sifts obsessively through questionnaires she gave to fans to understand better Judy's personal connection with people. While lavish, Boyt's hagiography proves poetic and endearing."-Publishers Weekly"I'm blown away…it's truly, madly, deeply brilliant."-Joseph O'Neill, author ofNetherland"A wonderfully engaging and inspiring book about love, loss, consolation, folly, and cakes."-Amanda Foreman, author ofThe Duchess"Beautiful, moving, and unique…blends autobiography with biography to create something magical, poetic, and truly original. As we follow the intertwining of two stories, and the meditations on the dreams, hopes, losses, and joys of human life, we realize that it is about much more than two people-it is about all of us."-Darian Leader, author ofStealing the Mona LisaandWhy People Get Ill"Boyt's obsession with Judy Garland is more than a memoir; it analyzes celebrity, how it affects us and succeeds in making star crushes feel noble, not shameful. A funny and moving look at pop culture."-Elle(UK), "Read of the Month""The desire to create something profound out of something seemingly superficial makes for an extremely strange but rather wonderful undertaking. The book defies definition. It has elements of biography, autobiography, self-help and fan letter; although it's firmly nonfiction, there are parts that read like a novel. Above all, it is a bold experiment that sets out to map the boundaries of celebrity obsession, and somewhere along the way discovers what it means to be human…beautiful, heart-stopping writing."-Observer(UK)"What a self-deprecating, funny, moving, entertaining read it is…Can cynicism really be so simply out-argued? Can a book really be so analytical and high-kicking, so fragile and defiant at the same time? A…truly altruistic piece of modern thought, this wonderfully clever books gives its whole self, flings its arms out in a rainy street like a wonderful diva. Brava."-Ali Smith,Times(London) , I couldn't put down Susie Boyt's quirkily brilliant My Judy Garland Life ...Boyt reaches winsome, deeply honest conclusions about the nature of celebrity worship and her own need for love. Best of all, Boyt keeps a sense of humor about the sheer madness of the whole project that is contagious and ultimately uplifting - not unlike the trouper spirit of Ms. Garland herself., "I couldn't put down Susie Boyt's quirkily brilliantMy Judy Garland Life...Boyt reaches winsome, deeply honest conclusions about the nature of celebrity worship and her own need for love. Best of all, Boyt keeps a sense of humor about the sheer madness of the whole project that is contagious and ultimately uplifting not unlike the trouper spirit of Ms. Garland herself."-Omagazine"By turns clever, hilariously ironical and sweetly earnest, English novelist Boyt's paean to the legendary singer and actress elevates hero worship to the role of self improvement…. Boyt's hagiography proves poetic and endearing."-Publishers Weekly"I'm blown away…it's truly, madly, deeply brilliant."-Joseph O'Neill, author ofNetherland"A wonderfully engaging and inspiring book about love, loss, consolation, folly, and cakes."-Amanda Foreman, author ofThe Duchess"Beautiful, moving, and unique…blends autobiography with biography to create something magical, poetic, and truly original. As we follow the intertwining of two stories, and the meditations on the dreams, hopes, losses, and joys of human life, we realize that it is about much more than two people-it is about all of us."-Darian Leader, author ofStealing the Mona LisaandWhy People Get Ill"Boyt's obsession with Judy Garland is more than a memoir; it analyzes celebrity, how it affects us and succeeds in making star crushes feel noble, not shameful. A funny and moving look at pop culture."-Elle(UK), "Read of the Month""The desire to create something profound out of something seemingly superficial makes for an extremely strange but rather wonderful undertaking. The book defies definition. It has elements of biography, autobiography, self-help and fan letter; although it's firmly nonfiction, there are parts that read like a novel. Above all, it is a bold experiment that sets out to map the boundaries of celebrity obsession, and somewhere along the way discovers what it means to be human…beautiful, heart-stopping writing."-Observer(UK)"What a self-deprecating, funny, moving, entertaining read it is…Can cynicism really be so simply out-argued? Can a book really be so analytical and high-kicking, so fragile and defiant at the same time? A…truly altruistic piece of modern thought, this wonderfully clever books gives its whole self, flings its arms out in a rainy street like a wonderful diva. Brava."-Times(London)
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