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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 782.42166092 EAN: 9781416587620 ISBN: 1416587624 Label: Simon Spotlight Entertainment Manufacturer: Simon Spotlight Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: July 14, 2008 Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment Release Date: July 14, 2008 Studio: Simon Spotlight Entertainment Sales Rank: 819
Madonna up close, by the brother who knows her better than anyone.
Christopher Ciccone's extraordinary memoir is based on his forty-seven years of growing up with, working with, and understanding the most famous woman of our time, who has intrigued, scandalized, and entertained millions for half a century.
Through most of the iconic star's kaleidoscopic career, Christopher played an important role in her life: as her backup dancer, her personal assistant, her dresser, her decorator, her art director, her tour director.
If you think you know everything there is to know about Madonna, you are wrong. Only Christopher can tell the full scale, riveting untold story behind Madonna's carefully constructed mythology, and the real woman behind the glittering façade.
From their shared Michigan childhood, which Madonna transcended, then whisked Christopher to Manhattan with her in the early eighties, where he slepton her roach-infested floor and danced with her in clubs all over town -- Christopher was with her every step of the way, experiencing her first hand in all her incarnations. The spoiled daddy's girl, the punk drummer, the raunchy Boy Toy, Material Girl, Mrs. Sean Penn, Warren Beatty's glamorous Hollywood paramour, loving mother, Mrs. Guy Ritchie, English grande dame -- Christopher witnessed and understood all of them, as his own life was inexorably entwined with that of his chameleon sister.
He tangled with a cast of characters from artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, to Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Moss, Demi Moore, and, of course, Guy Ritchie, whose advent in Madonna's life splintered the loving relationship Christopher once had with her.
The mirror image of his legendary sister, with his acid Ciccone tongue, Christopher pulls no punches as he tells his astonishing story.
Life with My Sister Madonna is the juicy, can't-put-it-down story you've always wanted to hear, as told by Madonna's younger brother.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Trapped by the drugs and lost his place in his sisters world!
At times I felt sympathy for Chris and his situation. You felt his sense of loosing himself to care for his sisters needs. That does happen in families for all types of reasons. It was clear that Madonna ... Read More
Rating: - Eh!
Well, it's not horrible but I'm glad I got it from the library and didn't pay for it.
Mr Ciccone claims that one of the two precepts by which both he and his sister try to live their lives is keeping ... Read More
Rating: - Life with My Sister Madonna Book
If I disliked her before reading the book (and I did), I detested her after reading. I would guess she makes life pretty miserable for everyone around her, including her children.
Rating: - Not Exactly a Madonna Bio
This was an ok light read. It is a memoir of Christopher Ciccone, not strictly a Madonna bio. Madonna is part of the story only because Chris spent a good part of his life working for her.
Rating: - Fun, but perhaps defeated the purpose?
I admit that this book captured and maintained my interest. However, I can't help but feel that he had other motives (money)for creating this book. I believe 70% of what he says, but would have loved to hear Madonna's ... Read More
- Trapped by the drugs and lost his place in his sisters world! 