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Goddess: Inside Madonna
Author: Barbara Victor
Book Information
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Book Type: Hardcover
Rating: 2

ISBN-13: 9780060199302 - ISBN-10: 006019930X
Publication Date: 11/2001
Pages: 432

Book Description:
Goddess is the book that Madonna and her entourage did not want published. Long before the star could instruct her family and friends not to talk to the author, Barbara Victor spent more than eighteen months in Michigan, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, California, New York, and Florida, interviewing Madonna's father and stepmother, her grandmother and other family members, as well as friends, neighbors, business associates, and former lovers and colleagues, some of whom knew the Ciccone family from the time Madonna was a young child, many of whom have never before spoken either on or off the record.

In this extraordinary biography, Barbara Victor taps into previously unexplored sources to unmask the privet person behind the public image. As a result of her extensive research, Victor casts new light on every aspect of Madonna's career and private life -- from her childhood in Michigan to her early years in New York, from meteoric ascent to stardom to her most recent incarnation as an English wife and mother.

After almost two decades, since she first appeared in the international music scene, Madonna continues to fascinate and challenge both her fans and her detractors. With her remarkable ability to reinvent herself -- from diva to provocateur, from artist to mogul -- she continues to command more attention and arouse more controversy than any other public figure of our time. Alternately criticized and revered, Madonna consistently and dramatically sets style, social, sexual, and musical trends and yet she remains an enigma to her public, keeping her most intimate identity hidden from all but her closest friends.Goddess offers explosive new revelations about Madonna's life, her career, and the fact or fantasy of her lesbian and heterosexual relationships. Barbara Victor has written the definitive biography about a woman who gives new meaning to the term superstar.


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Danielle T. (sugarkane) from FITCHBURG, WI wrote on 10/28/2007...


This was not my favorite Madonna biography. One reason was because this book read more like a college thesis, than a biography, and as a result was very dry. Now I ask you, how can one write a dry book about Madonna, a woman who has had a very interesting life. Further, the author's writing style was not only too academic for my taste, but not at all impartial. Victor makes it clear by her emotionally loaded words that she is not a Madonna fan. As a huge fan, every time the author took a dig at Madonna, I felt angry. It just seems to me that if you are writing a biography about someone you should present it in a very neutral way, so that the reader can make up their own minds. Having read a lot of Madonna biographies, I wasn't swayed by this material. However, a person reading their first book about Madonna could come away from this with a terrible opinion about her, and that is just not fair.

Cassandra M. from NAVASOTA, TX wrote on 3/21/2005...


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