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' A balanced, often absorbing study of an ultra-talented country music icon.' Mojo
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Dolly Parton is the most famous person ever to have emerged from the American country music scene with her iconic cartoon image - mountainous blonde wigs, pumped up breasts and dazzling outfits. This is the first new and substantial biography for over 15 years. This book includes interviews with family members, musicians and producers who have worked with her over the years. It includes a detailed assessment of her music, as a songwriter and singer over the last forty years. It shows how she shrugged aside the male dominated world of Nashville in the 1960s, to take hold of her career, sell millions of albums and appear in films with Jane Fonda, Burt Reynolds and Sylvester Stallone. It will throw new light on her private life - her mysterious and closely guarded relationships with her husband Carl Dean and her lifelong friend Judy Ogle and her obsession with cosmetic surgery.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
There are lots of things that are great about this biography. It is very detailed, with a lot of information. It is well written and very engaging. However most of the information it provides is about Dolly's career and the details about that. What it doesn't provide is much information about the lady herself, what she is like, and her emotional life.
In some ways that is a good thing, as today's celebrities are all too keen to pour it all out in public I suppose. However you finish the book wanting to know more rather than feeling like you've found out more!
I do like the fact that there is little of the hatchet job in this, the writer is fair and when he includes negative stuff (e.g. from National Enquirer) he qualifies this as not likely. You get the impression of a down to earth but tough woman who, like most stars, is a little insecure... but you do realise how hard she had it as a child. I think she is so positive that the hard part of her childhood is rarely seen, but you do see it in this book.
In some ways that is a good thing, as today's celebrities are all too keen to pour it all out in public I suppose. However you finish the book wanting to know more rather than feeling like you've found out more!
I do like the fact that there is little of the hatchet job in this, the writer is fair and when he includes negative stuff (e.g. from National Enquirer) he qualifies this as not likely. You get the impression of a down to earth but tough woman who, like most stars, is a little insecure... but you do realise how hard she had it as a child. I think she is so positive that the hard part of her childhood is rarely seen, but you do see it in this book.
28 of 30 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Well i have been a dolly fan all my life so am probably biased. But if you dont like her now read this and you will have fallen in love. Growing up in a dirt poor family dolly had 2 fantastic loving parents and in the book you realise that her roots still mean alot to her. You can also read about all the charity work she does as therfe is a very loving caring heart behind the breasts and a very clever mind under the wig.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book has been well researched by the author and offers an unbiased view of Dolly. Whether you want to know about Dolly's professional or personal life all of it is covered here. Having read it I was still left wanting to know more about Dolly but I think that is the way she would want it!
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