My Name Is Barbra (Unabridged)
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Publisher Description
The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television
PLEASE NOTE The audiobook edition is read by Barbra Streisand. Features additional anecdotes and music that are exclusive to the My Name is Barbra audiobook.
Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) and has one of the greatest and most recognizable voices in the history of popular music. She has been nominated for a Grammy 46 times, and with Yentl she became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major motion picture. In My Name Is Barbra, she tells her own story about her life and extraordinary career, from growing up in Brooklyn to her first star-making appearances in New York nightclubs to her breakout performance in Funny Girl on stage and winning the Oscar for that performance on film. Then came a long string of successes in every medium in the years that followed. The book is, like Barbra herself, frank, funny, opinionated, and charming. She recounts her early struggles to become an actress, eventually turning to singing to earn a living; the recording of some of her acclaimed albums; the years of effort involved in making Yentl; her direction of The Prince of Tides; her friendships with figures ranging from Marlon Brando to Madeleine Albright; her political advocacy; and the fulfillment she’s found in her marriage to James Brolin.
No entertainer’s memoir has been more anticipated than Barbra Streisand’s, and this engrossing and delightful book will be eagerly welcomed by her millions of fans.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Barbra Streisand’s epic memoir—all 48 hours of it!—is filled with revealing stories, delivered in that comfortingly familiar Brooklyn accent peppered with Yiddish phrases and chuckling asides. The stories from her teenage years spent discovering her talents in 1950s Greenwich Village are fascinating, like her time hanging with “kinda cute” fellow acting student Dustin Hoffman. The names and the stakes get bigger in the ’60s and ’70s, but what doesn’t change is that unshakable self-confidence, whether she’s tangling with screenwriters on A Star Is Born or convincing the suits to get behind her passion project, 1983’s Yentl. All her famous paramours are present and accounted for, though Streisand shies away from any scandalous revelations. Snippets of her cabaret shows, TV specials, and films colour her memories, making My Name Is Barbra a wonderful, multilayered listening experience. Fans have been waiting decades for this memoir, and it 100% delivers.
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