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Cher - The Memoir (The Cher Memoir, #1)

Cher - The Memoir (The Cher Memoir, #1)

by Cher

Dey Street Books ·2024 ·413 pages
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The extraordinary life of Cher can be told by only one person . . . Cher herself. After more than seventy years of fighting to live her life on her own terms, Cher finally reveals her true story in intimate detail, in a two-part memoir. Her remarkable career is unique and unparalleled. The only woman to top Billboard charts in seven consecutive decades, she is the winner of an Academy Award, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Cannes Film Festival Award, and an inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame who has been lauded by the Kennedy Center. She is a longtime activist and philanthropist. As a dyslexic child who dreamed of becoming famous, Cher was raised in often-chaotic circumstances, surrounded by singers, actors, and a mother who inspired her in spite of their difficult relationship. With her trademark honesty and humor, The Memoir traces how this diamond in the rough succeeded with no plan and little confidence to become the trailblazing superstar the world has been unable to ignore for more than half a century. The Memoir, Part One follows her extraordinary beginnings through childhood to meeting and marrying Sonny Bono—and reveals the highly complicated relationship that made them world-famous, but eventually drove them apart. The Memoir reveals the daughter, the sister, the wife, the lover, the mother, and the superstar. It is a life too immense for only one book.


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"Some leaden writing isn't going to diminish her."

Hadley Freeman· The Times (UK) Read review ↗ Top of the Pile

"A bracing read, peppered with caustic quips and self-effacing anecdotes, but fundamentally frank ..."

Sophie Gilbert· The Atlantic Read review ↗ Top of the Pile

"Confident, confiding ..."

Alexandra Jacobs· The New York Times Read review ↗ Top of the Pile

"A truly great celebrity memoir."

Kirkus Read review ↗ Top of the Pile

"Her hearteningly profane voice still emerges and, with it, the question of why she's writing a memoir in the first place."

Louis Bayard· The Washington Post Read review ↗ Near the Top

"Like Barbra Streisand, who recently penned a 970-page memoir, Cher is one of the handful of artists whose extraordinary life merits the extra ink."

Marc Ballon· Los Angeles Times Read review ↗ Top of the Pile

"Still, in the main, Part One makes for a hearty, full-blooded read."

Barbara Ellen· The Guardian Read review ↗ Maybe Someday

"The best sort of company in stormy times."

Laura Miller· Slate Read review ↗ Top of the Pile

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