Home: A Memoir of My Early Years
by Julie Andrews
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Author: Julie AndrewsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2009-04-07
ISBN: 1615511237
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Hyperion
Book Reviews of Home: A Memoir of My Early Years
Book Review: An English Rose
Summary: 5 Stars
I enjoy memoirs and autobiography. Julie Andrews writes well and candidly. Her descriptions of England before the war are especially interesting.
Hopefully she will write a sequel as this memoir is only about her early years,her parents, how her voice developed, her Broadway success, marriage and baby daughter. It ends just as she and her family land in Hollywood to begin working with Walt Disney on Mary Poppins.That's unfair!
If you love hearing Julie sing, and love "The Sound Of Music" movie spectacular, you will enjoy the true story of how she grew up in rural England in a musical but dysfunctional family and how she played Eliza Doolittle with Rex Harrison in "My Fair Lady" on Broadway. Her descriptions of everything from houses, vaudeville, friends, family, voice lessons, and mentors are detailed and impressive. The research for the book is extensive. Read the book and be surprised.
Summary of Home: A Memoir of My Early Years
"A frank, intriguing memoir."--People
"Painfully shrewd, and written with real delicacy and pathos."
--The New York Times Book Review
"Home reflects the very qualities that first made the working-class English singer a star 45 years ago: intelligence, gentle humor, and a clear, sweet, surprisingly powerful voice . . . In warmly nostalgic later chapters, the book begins to glow."
--Entertainment Weekly
"A delightful remembrance of her own childhood, and an engrossing prelude to her cinematic career . . . Andrews is an accomplished writer who holds back nothing while adding a patina of poetry to the antics and anecdotes throughout this memoir of bittersweet backstage encounters and theatrical triumphs."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Frank and fascinating . . . Andrews comes across as plainspoken, guilelessly charming and resoundingly tough."
--Time
In Home: A Memoir of My Early Years, Julie Andrews takes her readers on a warm, moving, and often humorous journey from a difficult upbringing in war-torn Britain to the brink of international stardom in America.
Syphilis, alcoholism, infidelity, and indeterminate parentage may seem improbable touchstones in the back story of one who didn't so much portray as embody the blithe Maria in The Sound of Music. But as this memoir of her formative years makes clear, there is more gravitas to Andrews than meets the eye. From her childhood in rural England and initial forays into British theater, to her first massive successes on Broadway and in the West End--notably as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady--Home puts her celebrated career in context. While arguably offering more detail about the Andrews family than necessary, it nevertheless dishes wonderful anecdotes about legends and Andrews contemporaries like Noël Coward, Rex Harrison, Robert Goulet, Richard Burton, and Rodgers and Hammerstein, in prose as crisp and immaculate as the author herself. It also offers a revealing look into the intricate, exhaustive craft of performing--skills often taken for granted in tabloid times. Since the book ends just as Andrews is about to launch into the celluloid stratosphere, can Volume II be far behind? After Home, it would be most welcome. --Kim Hughes
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