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Little Girl Blue : The Life of Karen Carpenter by Randy L. Schmidt
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1569768188
ISBN-13
9781569768181
eBay Product ID (ePID)
121743355
Product Key Features
Book Title
Little Girl Blue : the Life of Karen Carpenter
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Topic
Composers & Musicians, Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
Genre
Music, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
18.9 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Karen Carpenter was a great, natural singer who made things sound beautifully simple, and her story deserves to be told." — Burt Bacharach, "Told with compassion and understanding, this poignant and richly fascinating story of Karen Carpenter reads more like a novel you can't put down than the extensively and impeccably researched biography it actually is." --David Kaufman, author of Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door, "[A] heart-rending biography . . . The author relates Karen's story in writing as fluid and affectless as her singing . . . As Schmidt details Karen's unstoppable fall, Little Girl Blue becomes one of the saddest tales in pop . . . This compassionate book gives a tortured waif the third dimension she deserved." -New York Times Book Review, "[A] heart-rending biography . . . The author relates Karen's story in writing as fluid and affectless as her singing . . . As Schmidt details Karen's unstoppable fall, Little Girl Blue becomes one of the saddest tales in pop . . . This compassionate book gives a tortured waif the third dimension she deserved." --New York Times Book Review, "Told with compassion and understanding, this poignant and richly fascinating story of Karen Carpenter reads more like a novel you can't put down than the extensively and impeccably researched biography it actually is." — David Kaufman , author of Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door, "The copious research and quick-moving narration make this a volume that die-hard Carpenters fans and casual listeners alike will find interesting." -- Publishers Weekly, "Randy Schmidt captures and shares the moving story of Karen's life. This biography of a true artist will touch the hearts of all her many fans, just as she herself embraced mine." — Phil Ramone , Grammy-award winning record producer, "Heartbreaking. . . . Schmidt succeeds in bringing a gifted, troubled musician to vivid life." -- People, "Told with compassion and understanding, this poignant and richly fascinating story of Karen Carpenter reads more like a novel you can't put down than the extensively and impeccably researched biography it actually is." -- David Kaufman , author of Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door, "Heartbreaking. . . . Schmidt succeeds in bringing a gifted, troubled musician to vivid life." — People, Told with compassion and understanding, this poignant and richly fascinating story of Karen Carpenter reads more like a novel you can't put down than the extensively and impeccably researched biography it actually is." — David Kaufman , author of Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door, "Heartbreaking. . . . Schmidt succeeds in bringing a gifted, troubled musician to vivid life." - People, "The copious research and quick-moving narration make this a volume that die-hard Carpenters fans and casual listeners alike will find interesting." - Publishers Weekly, "[A] heart-rending biography . . . The author relates Karen's story in writing as fluid and affectless as her singing . . . As Schmidt details Karen's unstoppable fall, Little Girl Blue becomes one of the saddest tales in pop . . . This compassionate book gives a tortured waif the third dimension she deserved." —New York Times Book Review
Dewey Decimal
782.42164092
Synopsis
Little Girl Blue is an intimate profile of Karen Carpenter, a girl from a modest Connecticut upbringing who became a Southern California superstar. Karen was the instantly recognizable lead singer of the Carpenters. The top-selling American musical act of the 1970s, they delivered the love songs that defined a generation. Little Girl Blue reveals Karen's heartbreaking struggles with her mother, brother, and husb∧ the intimate disclosures she made to her closest friends; her love for playing drums and her frustrated quest for solo stardom; and the ups and downs of her treatment for anorexia nervosa. After her shocking death at 32 years of age in 1983, she became the proverbial poster child for that disorder; but the other causes of her decline are laid bare for the first time in this moving account. Little Girl Blue is Karen Carpenter's definitive biography, based on exclusive interviews with her innermost circle of girlfriends and nearly 100 others, including childhood friends, professional associates, and lovers., Little Girl Blue is an intimate profile of Karen Carpenter, a girl from a modest Connecticut upbringing who became a Southern California superstar. Karen was the instantly recognizable lead singer of the Carpenters. The top-selling American musical act of the 1970s, they delivered the love songs that defined a generation. Little Girl Blue reveals Karen's heartbreaking struggles with her mother, brother, and husband; the intimate disclosures she made to her closest friends; her love for playing drums and her frustrated quest for solo stardom; and the ups and downs of her treatment for anorexia nervosa. After her shocking death at 32 years of age in 1983, she became the proverbial poster child for that disorder; but the other causes of her decline are laid bare for the first time in this moving account. Little Girl Blue is Karen Carpenter's definitive biography, based on exclusive interviews with her innermost circle of girlfriends and nearly 100 others, including childhood friends, professional associates, and lovers.
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