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'Electrifying.' The Sunday Times
'A glorious, rogue, raw account ...…
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Sharon Stone's autobiography is brave, immersive and full of wisdom. Parts of it knocks my socks off for its honesty, courage and reflective learning. Superb.
I’ve thought of Sharon Stone as a rebel since seeing her breakthrough film Basic Instinct. Every interview I’d read since then convinced me that I was right. This memoir shows why. The title comes from her life-and-death fight with a brain aneurysm which derailed her film career but not her life. Right off the bat, Stone’s memoir makes the distinction between lace-curtain Irish and kitchen-sink Irish, her family standing on the kitchen sink side. This class distinction and loyalty to her roots in Pennsylvania are part of her honesty, her fight against the phoniness of the film industry, and…
From Judy's list on how rebels kept up the good fight.
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