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Home: A Memoir of My Early Years | 
| Author: Julie Andrews
Publisher: Harper Collins Canada
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 5326
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6 x 1.3
ISBN: 0786865652
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.4028092
EAN: 9780786865659
ASIN: 0786865652
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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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 theatre, 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 Noel 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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| Customer Reviews:
Loved this June 26, 2008
Serious book lover (Canada)
I admit it -- I've always loved Julie Andrews. What I loved about this memoir however was how real the anecdotes were. The book ends long before her Mary Poppins and Sound of Music days and fills us with colourful pictures from her childhood. Often we think that icons are 'just made', but Julie Andrews lets us see all of the work, difficulty and grind of getting to success. Unlike other autobiographies however, the reader isn't left feeling grimy and sad. You can almost hear her bright cheerful voice throughout the whole book. It feels like a natural journal interspersed with little musings, discussions about small things she loved and things she found humourous. You realize that a biographer would have removed these things --- but they are what make this memoir so lovely and so like her.
After reading this memoir, I admired her even more and never lost my earlier love for all of her work and her music. I can't wait until the next memoir of the later years is published.
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