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by Carol Easton (Author) "At the age of three, Jacqueline du Pre set off on her tricycle one morning and was not seen again until nightfall, when the police..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 232 pages
  • Publisher: Da Capo Press Inc; New edition edition (14 Sep 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0306809761
  • ISBN-13: 978-0306809767
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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First time in paperback: A "strong, compelling, and compassionate book" ( Boston Globe ) about the acclaimed and ill-fated cellist who died at the age of forty-two.. Carol Easton, who knew Jacqueline du Pr well, draws on this friendship to create a moving and insightful portrait of a singularly complex person. Jacqueline du Pr (the subject of the recent film Hilary and Jackie ) was the music world's "golden girl," with what appeared to many to be a fairytale career and storybook marriage to Daniel Barenboim. But away from her cello, du Pr was achingly human. As a child, she was isolated by her phenomenal talent. As an adult, she was confined to the rarefied, insular concert world. And during the last fifteen years of her life, she lived in the inexorably shrinking world of the invalid, as multiple sclerosis took its toll. The Baltimore Sun said, Carol Easton tells this extraordinary story "with feeling befitting du Pr's own. "
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3.0 out of 5 stars Jacqueline Du Pre - Carol Easton, 5 Jul 2002
This is a good general account of the life of the cellist and would serve as an introduction for anyone new to her playing. However, it is on the whole factual, listing events without giving much analysis. For a more in-depth study of Du Pre's art, as well as her feelings and attitudes, read Elizabeth Wilson's more recent biography, published by Faber.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This book is not only about music, a world-class classical performer and a tragedy, it is about MS, 26 Feb 2009
By M. Bucci (Boston area) - See all my reviews
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So far I am almost finished the du Pre biography and what insights I've gained, not only about music, performance, concert and recording life in the 60s, and the cello, but also from reading about her mother, her family background, her revolt against her parents by becoming Jewish (was her father an anti-Semite?). Carol Easton's book is about music, yes, but mostly about du Pre!

How domineering was her mother who hardly visited her after she was diagnosed, and how Jackie fell into surrounding herself with mother images and domination-substitutes earlier: Barenboim (Type-A personality with unbounded energy), "The Schubert 'Trout' Quintet" (jet-set superstars), along with the grueling and dictatorial pressures of concert and recording schedules. MS stopped all of it! She found a sympathetic confidant in her analyst who suddenly and prematurely died at age 50. Just a few years into her marriage, and at her height, she wished nothing more than to lead a normal life and raise a family, but she had little skills in it and no background to draw from having grown-up sheltered to focus on a concentrated life with the cello - nor could she remove herself from the plateau she and Daniel now occupied together. In an indirect way, she pleased her mother's ambition for her if only because she could please herself in the music - not because she was promotional of her prodigious talent, but because she was profoundly in love with music. If she lost herself and became "someone else" when playing the cello, as one friend said, maybe it was because she truly became "herself". After she could no longer play, her mother disappeared from her life.

She was known as "Smiley" to the Barenboim gang, but privately knew herself to be complex, deeply sensitive and soul-searching, traits her shyness never revealed. To others, she could pass for a farm girl. The cello became her soulmate in a sense, then Barenboim entered and the two were swept into total love and produced total music - the Camelot couple of music, as TIME wrote at the time. But MS began earlier than is publicly discussed, and after diagnosis her career and music were not forgotten, only she, an invalid, was forgotten (in my opinion).

This book is not only about music, a world-class classical performer and a tragedy, it is about MS. If you have MS or know someone with MS, this book is valuable. I have MS. I identify with Jackie's symptoms up to the point of her illness becoming "primary-progressive", though I am secondary-progressive and may enter into her later stages sooner rather than later. I am not shocked to read about her difficulties and confusions and emotional swings and all the misunderstandings and false judgements accorded her. This is territory of MS. She, like others, underwent these terrible psychological traumas without a guidebook or even a medical "hook" that excused and explained the disease befalling her and baffling her admirers. Yet, every MS person experiences these things, and the world doesn't notice - or so it feels. Although the book was written in 1989, the basics about MS, clinical research into its cause, and a description of Jackie's symptoms experienced at various stages of the disease have not changed. Most importantly, an MS person (family member, partner or caregiver) can find "closure" in her story, if not cry in silence - but know they are not alone! I believe Jackie would have liked the world to know as much about MS as they do about Elgar. Carol Easton's book fulfills part of that wish.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A good bio but with a few reservations, 12 April 2009
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Having read the bio on Jacqueline du Pré by her sister Hilary and her brother Piers I was looking forward to reading a biography from an 'outsiders' point of view (ie not a family member) and this bio by Carol Easton didn't disappoint. It was well written and told Smiler's story from her music point of view rather than from her families point of view,mainly as both Hilary and Piers declined to be involved in this book, as did Daniel Barenboim. Having read the ' Genius In The Family ' book I was somewhat surprised that Jackie's affair with her brother-in-law Kiffer Finzi wasn't given a mention by Carol.One has to assume it happened as both Hilary and her daughter Clare have separately stated that was the case,though Clare gave a rather scathing view of her father,while Hilary was more understanding and seemed to accept the affair as it helped her sister's depression so was conducted with her knowledge and approval rather oddly. I also noted that in Carol's book a young man by the name of William Ingrey came into Jackie's life latish in her illness and seems to have fulfilled certain of her needs ( Carol hints at a sexual relationship). However,William Ingrey isn't mentioned at all in the siblings book so I assume they were unaware of his presence in their sister's life. I am soon to read the bio by Elizabeth Wilson and so will inevitably compare her book with the two I have already read. I would recommend Carol Easton's book as it is an interesting read and good to hear from people who were involved in Jackie's lif- mainly her musical life.
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