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Title: Her Again
Subtitle: Becoming Meryl Streep
Author: Michael Schulman
Narrator: Eliza Foss
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-26-16
Publisher: HarperAudio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 170 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians
Publisher's Summary:
A portrait of a woman, an era, and a profession: the first thoroughly researched biography of Meryl Streep - the "Iron Lady" of acting, nominated for 19 Oscars and winner of three - that explores her beginnings as a young woman of the 1970s grappling with love, feminism, and her astonishing talent.
In 1975, Meryl Streep, a promising young graduate of the Yale School of Drama, was finding her place in the New York theater scene. Burning with talent and ambition, she was like dozens of aspiring actors of the time - a 20-something beauty who rode her bike everywhere, kept a diary, napped before performances, and stayed out late "talking about acting with actors in actors' bars". Yet Meryl stood apart from her peers. In her first season in New York, she won attention-getting parts in back-to-back Broadway plays, a Tony Award nomination, and two roles in Shakespeare in the Park productions. Even then, people said, "Her. Again."
Her Again is an intimate look at the artistic coming of age of the greatest actress of her generation, from the homecoming float at her suburban New Jersey high school through her early days on the stage at Vassar College and the Yale School of Drama during its golden years to her star-making roles in The Deer Hunter, Manhattan, and Kramer vs. Kramer. New Yorker contributor Michael Schulman brings into focus Meryl's heady rise to stardom on the New York stage; her passionate, tragically short-lived love affair with fellow actor John Cazale; her marriage to sculptor Don Gummer; and her evolution as a young woman of the 1970s wrestling with changing ideas of feminism, marriage, love, and sacrifice.
This captivating story of the making of one of the most revered artistic careers of our time reveals a gifted young woman coming into her extraordinary talents at a time of immense transformation, offering a rare glimpse into the life of the actress long before she became an icon.
Members Reviews:
Curiously Devoid Of Any Personal Details
This book is the oddest thing: a purported biography with literally NO information on its subject that the reader could not discover on his own simply by reading every Wikipedia entry and magazine article ever written about her. I suppose this is what's to be expected from an unauthorized biography (Streep wrote to the author when she first heard about the project, advising him not to write the book), but I pre-ordered it on the supposition that SOMEONE (or preferably many someones) close to Streep would have been interviewed and provided some interesting, never-before-told stories and insights. If any friends, family, former lovers or rivals DID talk to the author, you'd never know it from this book-length magazine article masquerading as biography.
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Title: Her Again
Subtitle: Becoming Meryl Streep
Author: Michael Schulman
Narrator: Eliza Foss
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-26-16
Publisher: HarperAudio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 170 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians
Publisher's Summary:
A portrait of a woman, an era, and a profession: the first thoroughly researched biography of Meryl Streep - the "Iron Lady" of acting, nominated for 19 Oscars and winner of three - that explores her beginnings as a young woman of the 1970s grappling with love, feminism, and her astonishing talent.
In 1975, Meryl Streep, a promising young graduate of the Yale School of Drama, was finding her place in the New York theater scene. Burning with talent and ambition, she was like dozens of aspiring actors of the time - a 20-something beauty who rode her bike everywhere, kept a diary, napped before performances, and stayed out late "talking about acting with actors in actors' bars". Yet Meryl stood apart from her peers. In her first season in New York, she won attention-getting parts in back-to-back Broadway plays, a Tony Award nomination, and two roles in Shakespeare in the Park productions. Even then, people said, "Her. Again."
Her Again is an intimate look at the artistic coming of age of the greatest actress of her generation, from the homecoming float at her suburban New Jersey high school through her early days on the stage at Vassar College and the Yale School of Drama during its golden years to her star-making roles in The Deer Hunter, Manhattan, and Kramer vs. Kramer. New Yorker contributor Michael Schulman brings into focus Meryl's heady rise to stardom on the New York stage; her passionate, tragically short-lived love affair with fellow actor John Cazale; her marriage to sculptor Don Gummer; and her evolution as a young woman of the 1970s wrestling with changing ideas of feminism, marriage, love, and sacrifice.
This captivating story of the making of one of the most revered artistic careers of our time reveals a gifted young woman coming into her extraordinary talents at a time of immense transformation, offering a rare glimpse into the life of the actress long before she became an icon.
Members Reviews:
Curiously Devoid Of Any Personal Details
This book is the oddest thing: a purported biography with literally NO information on its subject that the reader could not discover on his own simply by reading every Wikipedia entry and magazine article ever written about her. I suppose this is what's to be expected from an unauthorized biography (Streep wrote to the author when she first heard about the project, advising him not to write the book), but I pre-ordered it on the supposition that SOMEONE (or preferably many someones) close to Streep would have been interviewed and provided some interesting, never-before-told stories and insights. If any friends, family, former lovers or rivals DID talk to the author, you'd never know it from this book-length magazine article masquerading as biography.