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Shirley Jones: A Memoir
Shirley Jones A Memoir
Author: Shirley Jones
Shirley Jones is an American film legend of the first order, having starred in Oklahoma!, Carousel, and The Music Man, as well as playing her Oscar-winning role as a prostitute in Elmer Gantry long before The Partridge Family. On that iconic show, she portrayed the epitome of American motherhood, a symbol to generations of families in the 1970s,...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9781476725963
ISBN-10: 1476725969
Publication Date: 2/25/2014
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Gallery Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
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I like Shirley Jones & quite a lot of the movies that she's done (full honesty: I've never seen a single episode of the Partridge Family). That being said, this memoir falls flat. I disagree with another member who said it was TMI; you don't get anything more lurid here than you would you would in a trashy tabloid. And there lies the problem. The whole book has the writing of a tabloid - not that it's overly trashy, but there's no emotional connection in the stories. When we go down memory lane it feels like these memories are being pulled up from a data bank by a robot. Even the stories that are meant to shock or titilate feel cold, like you're reading a high school history book.
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