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  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Plexus Publishing Ltd (1 Jun 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0859653773
  • ISBN-13: 978-0859653770
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 15.4 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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Written with acclaimed music journalist Ann Powers, Piece By Piece is a revelatory account of the most intimate details of Tori Amos s private and public lives. Tori reveals the specifics of her creative process and the way in which she balances her life as a writer and performer with the demands of family life. With photos taken especially for this book by award-winning photographer Loren Haynes, Piece By Piece is a rare treat for all Tori devotees.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An amazing insight, 5 April 2005
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This review is from: Tori Amos: Piece by Piece (Hardcover)
If you are looking for the "I was born, grew up and played piano" type book this is not the book for you. This is more of a recording of thoughts as noted by Ann Powers. There are sections where Tori writes by herself and Ann also makes her comments. There is also the bonus of Tori's nearest and dearest talking to Ann about Tori.

Tori shows that she is a well-read and very articulate person with a wonderful way of explaining how her songs come to her, how she feels about life as wife and mother whilst touring and recording.

Tori paints a wonderfully colourful picture as she references ancient Godesses and history to compare stages in her life. She is every bit the self-proclaimed "lioness" and "Demeter".

With her articulate and expressive way of talking/writing I guarantee that you will be laughing and crying as the stages of her life are unfolded.

A must read for all Toriphiles!

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Not your usual autobiography, 4 Aug 2005
By Brida "izumi" (Worcs) - See all my reviews
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Just as Tori's music is very original, so too is this autobiography. Although she does include details about her personal life and her more public life as an artist, this biography also looks at how her creative process works. How does she get the ideas for her songs, and once this has happened, how does she do the music? This really is a look at what it can mean to be a woman in the music industry. Like many women, Tori is at once a daughter, mother, wife and career woman - how does she cope with all these different aspects of her life, and how has motherhood changed her perspective, if at all?
To attempt to answer such questions, Tori does look at her childhood and the beginning of her career. Along with Tori's own thoughts and reflections, the book also has insights from people close to her - her husband, members of her band, and Ann Powers, a music journalist, also includes her own thoughts.
One of the most interesting chapters for me was chapter 2, "Mary Magdalene: The Erotic Muse". In this chapter she includes a few lines of a song she never released:
"I have 50 hearts, they're all in 50 different drawers
When you come calling I always put the purple one on
If I dumped all 50 out on the living room floor
would you say clean up the mess before I get home?"
This particularly struck me as I often feel that as a woman I sometimes have to hide all the different aspects of my personality in order to please others. The chapter as a whole really made me think about what she was trying to get across, and I have never been a raging feminist! Tori just seems to have a way of saying things that feel familiar.

This is a great addition to the collection of any Tori fan. It really shows that is a very educated, intelligent woman who is complex and intriguing. I devoured it just before seeing her live for the first time on her Original Sinsuality tour and I still, and always will, treasure it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Tori Amos, 12 Feb 2005
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This review is from: Tori Amos: Piece by Piece (Hardcover)
Ms. Amos, known for her music as well as her contribution to RAIN, a web site dealing with abused women has given to us a powerful book on her life, the meanings behind the words she writes for her music and does so with beautifully eloquent grace.
It is part memoir and part musical prose.
This is a must read for everyone.
Other great reads include: Nightmares Echo by Katlyn Stewart and If I Knew Then by Amy Fisher
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