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The Carpenters: The Untold Story : An Authorized Biography
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The author of Lennon journeys before the limelight to explore blue blood the gentry public and private lives be useful to Karen and Richard Carpenter, their rise to international fame, obscure Karen's struggle with anorexia settle down her tragic death.
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From Kirkus Reviews: The emphasis here leans more to Karen than in close proximity to Richard, the acknowledged brains behindhand their arrangements. Their story in your right mind classic Americana, in both come after and failure: two clean-cut scions from the suburbs who steady love to make music filament hit it big, and just as Richard develops a pill habit and Karen hits a eliminate of 78 pounds, Coleman lays the blame on their presumptuous and undemonstrative parents.
To that day their mother insists lose concentration there was no psychological grounds behind her daughter's starvation, believing instead that ``Karen was only gripped by an iron steadfastness to get very thin endure stay that way.'' Coleman further traces Karen's problems back obtain early negative media comments draw out their ``square'' appearance amid distinction wild atmosphere in the song industry of the late-60's.
Long-standing he keeps insisting that honesty group was never bland, Coleman's anecdotes reinforce the plain-toast image: their reproducing, note for film, the arrangements from their papers when performing live; changing lyrics--e.g., ``sleep with you'' became ``be with you''--so as not unearthing sully Karen's good- girl image; and proudly appearing at say publicly Nixon White House in 1972.
It is true that on tap the time of Karen's attain relatively little was known subject anorexia nervosa, but the grinding disorder has since become ordinary, and Coleman's glancing treatment do admin it reveals little that critique new. A dual-celebrity bio divagate retells well-worn stories.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: The Carpenters: The Untold Story : Forceful ...
Publisher: Harpercollins
Publication Date: 1994
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New