The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television
PLEASE NOTE: The audiobook edition is read by Barbra Streisand and features additional anecdotes and music that are exclusive to this audiobook.
Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) and has one of the greatest and most recognizable voices in the history of popular music. She has been nominated for a Grammy 46 times, and with Yentl she became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major motion picture.
In My Name Is Barbra, she tells her own story about her life and extraordinary career, from growing up in Brooklyn to her first star-making appearances in New York nightclubs to her breakout performance in Funny Girl on stage and winning the Oscar for that performance on film. Then came a long string of successes in every medium in the years that followed.
The book is, like Barbra herself, frank, funny, opinionated, and charming. She recounts her early struggles to become an actress, eventually turning to singing to earn a living; the recording of some of her acclaimed albums; the years of effort involved in making Yentl; her direction of The Prince of Tides; her friendships with figures ranging from Marlon Brando to Madeleine Albright; her political advocacy; and the fulfillment she’s found in her marriage to James Brolin.
No entertainer’s memoir has been more anticipated than Barbra Streisand’s, and this engrossing and delightful book will be eagerly welcomed by her millions of fans.
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"I started listening to this audiobook and felt like Barbra was talking to me, on my patio, sharing stories of her life and loves and tragedies and triumphs and everything in between. I think she's my best friend now. Does she know? I listen when I turn out the lights...and fall asleep to her voice, and the book plays all night while I sleep (so I'm sure I dream of being in FUNNY GIRL and singing "Isn't this the height of non-chanlance...foinurishing a bed......in restaurants!" I wake up to her talking to me...and then I have to rewind the book back to where I feel asleep...so I'm still listening and re-listening because I don't want to miss a word!
Barbra is a true beauty and so ahead of her time. She amazes me more with every story she tells....and every person who was part of her life. I'm now watching every movie she was in....My family wants to know why I don't listen to their every whim...I tell them "I'm still listening to my best friend, Barbra!"
If I could buy this audiobook for everyone I know, I would....I want to discuss each and every story with someone!! If Barbra wants to call me, I'll discuss it with her!
My husband used to be Jim Brolin's insurance many in the 1970s...maybe he can call my husband and we can have dinner with them??
Thank you, Barbra, for sharing this amazing life with me. And all the others, who I am certain, are having the same response."
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Leanne Helfman (5 out of 5 stars)