Cher: Part One
The Memoir
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4.6 • 209 Ratings
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Publisher Description
***The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller***
***The Global #1 Bestseller***
The extraordinary life of Cher can be told by only one person . . . Cher herself.
After more than seventy years of fighting to live her life on her own terms, Cher finally reveals her true story in intimate detail, in a two-part memoir.
Her remarkable career is unique and unparalleled. The only woman to top Billboard charts in seven consecutive decades, she is the winner of an Academy Award, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Cannes Film Festival Award, and an inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame who has been lauded by the Kennedy Center.
She is a lifelong activist and philanthropist.
As a dyslexic child who dreamed of becoming famous, Cher was raised in often-chaotic circumstances, surrounded by singers, actors, and a mother who inspired her in spite of their difficult relationship.
With her trademark honesty and humor, Cher: The Memoir traces how this diamond in the rough succeeded with no plan and little confidence to become the trailblazing superstar the world has been unable to ignore for more than half a century.
Cher: The Memoir, Part One follows her extraordinary beginnings through childhood to meeting and marrying Sonny Bono—and reveals the highly complicated relationship that made them world-famous, but eventually drove them apart.
Cher: The Memoir reveals the daughter, the sister, the wife, the lover, the mother, and the superstar.
It is a life too immense for only one book.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The only way to hear the incredible life story of a pop culture phenomenon like Cher is straight from the icon herself. In this captivating first half of a two-part memoir, the singer and actress born Cherilyn Sarkisian offers up a bold, honest, and reflective look at her life. She does that by first telling the story of her mother, Jackie Jean, whose own struggles with abandonment, abuse, and generational poverty (not to mention her ambitions as a singer and actress) offer eye-opening context about the world Cher was born into. By the time the teenage Cher meets a slightly older music biz veteran named Sonny Bono and gets launched onto a seemingly never-ending roller coaster of worldwide stardom and embarrassing missteps with an unsettling undercurrent of emotional abuse in both directions, Cher: The Memoir already feels like an entire lifetime. What’s amazing is that this volume still leaves so much to look forward to in the next.
Customer Reviews
Great Read
I could not put the book down. It was wonderful. Cher honestly tells her story. I can’t wait for Part 2.
Great insight
Life with Cher was never boring, that’s for sure. Too much name dropping and tedious meeting jargon, but all in all, it’s a great read.
Amazing
Stayed up many nights because I couldn’t put it down. I feel I know Cher! Great read!!!