My Name is Barbra: The Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography and Music Book of the Year 2023 - Barbra Streisand (Hardback) 07-11-2023
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and THE TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023. The exhilarating and startlingly honest autobiography of the living legend. 'Over almost a thousand pages, the diva to end them all documents her rise to the top and the tears and joys that went with it ... What really brings this alive is Barbra Streisand's admission of the insecurity that drives her.' The Times 'Exhilarating ... leaves blood on the page ... My Name Is Barbra is 992 pages of startling honesty and self-reflection, deadpan parenthetical asides, encyclopedic recall of onstage outfits, and rigorous analyses of her films' Vanity Fair 'I have been patiently waiting for Barbra Streisand's autobiography for 54 years....My Name is Barbra is a Streisand obsessive's dream come true. It addresses all the rumours and misrepresentations of her long and extraordinary life, from nearly missing out on A Star is Born to dating Pierre Trudeau, Omar Sharif and Marlon Brando. The wait has been worth every word!' - Richard E Grant, Sunday Times 'The mother of all memoirs' New Yorker 'A brilliant memoir' Hillary Clinton 'Glorious, exuberant, chatty and candid, a 970-page victory lap past all who ever doubted, diminished or dissed her . . . generous dollops of chutzpah ... Nobody puts Barbra in the corner' New York Times 'Mystical, messy, bawdy and funny ... My Name is Barbra confides her insecurities and a ravening hunger for fame ... silent but eloquent and vociferous writing' Peter Conrad, The Observer 'At heart this is a story so bursting with life, fury, unbelievable ambition and food (Streisand loves to eat) that you come away from it exhausted but smiling ... hear hear!' The Guardian 'This enormous, poignant memoir from the ultimate showbusiness trouper shows that you can never have it all (even if you're Barbra). The writing is great and the likeable formidable personality shines through . . . deeper than the average celebrity memoir' The Times 'A glorious doorstopper... the sheer ambit