--- product_id: 64077092 title: "Goddess Hardcover – November 6, 2001" brand: "barbara victor" price: "Rp570302" currency: IDR in_stock: true reviews_count: 6 category: "Books" url: https://www.desertcart.id/products/64077092-goddess-hardcover-november-6-2001 store_origin: ID region: Indonesia --- # Goddess Hardcover – November 6, 2001 **Brand:** barbara victor **Price:** Rp570302 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Goddess Hardcover – November 6, 2001 by barbara victor - **How much does it cost?** Rp570302 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.id](https://www.desertcart.id/products/64077092-goddess-hardcover-november-6-2001) ## Best For - barbara victor enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted barbara victor brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description From Publishers Weekly Even if it weren't competing head-to-head with two other Madonna biographies by titans in their fields (J. Randy Taraborrelli's Madonna: An Intimate Biography and Andrew Morton's Madonna), this overstuffed and plodding chronicle of the ever-morphing entertainer is sure to try the patience of most fans. Using the filming of Evita as a touchstone, Victor ceaselessly links much in Madonna's life to the struggle to make that film. Unconvinced readers may suspect the heavy emphasis is merely because Victor was in Argentina when the filming began in 1996 and at that point she decided to pen Madonna's life story. The lion's share of the tome is devoted to the pre-celebrity life of Madonna Louise Ciccone, the third of eight children raised in a large traditional Italian household in Michigan. Her mother died of breast cancer when Madonna was only six years old, leaving a void and obsession that both haunted and drove the future star toward her desire to be a dancer and then a singer and actress. Victor's erratic continuity will be a challenge for fans who like linear biographies. Although the author focuses on Madonna's life in New York before the release of her first album in 1983, numerous incidents provoke Victor to push readers decades forward and back with dizzying effect. Madonna has obligingly provided a storybook happy ending, with the Material Girl now happily married (to director Guy Ritchie) and a mother of two, living in the U.K. (Nov. 6)Forecast: Fans not already sated by Taraborrelli's fast-moving, admiring account may skip this one and wait for Morton's higher-profile release also in November.Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Read more About the Author Barbara Victor is a journalist who has covered the Middle East for most of her professional life. She has worked for U.S. News & World Report, Life Magazine, the International Herald Tribune, and Elle and is currently a contributing editor to Madame Figaro and Politique Internationale, as well as to BMF Radio, where she has a weekend program entitled An American in Paris. She is also the author of four novels, with have been translated into twenty-two languages and five nonfiction works. Ms. Victor lives in Paris with her French husband and two French poodles. Read more ## Images ![Goddess Hardcover – November 6, 2001 - Image 1](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41JD89Q7FXL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐ Skip this one *by A***J on October 22, 2002* This book was indeed quite a challenge to finish and would have been greatly improved by a more rigorous editing job. The writer's transitions between ideas were practically non-existent -- a frequent tactic of the author's was to describe an anecdote and then "analyze" it, but the analysis often left me totally baffled, since the writer did not take the time to explain why she came to her conclusions -- as if describing the anecdote was enough to make its (apparently one-and-only) "meaning" obvious. And I deeply distrust any biography that describes what the subject was thinking when she was alone, especially when the subject did not cooperate with or directly contribute to the writing of the book. And Ms. Victor got several of her facts wrong, which does not lend credence to her speculations -- "You Must Love Me," for example, was written for Madonna in Evita, and so it sounds silly for the writer to say Madonna made it her own, since she was the only one who has performed it so far. The writer also defines "los descamisados" as "the shiftless ones," when it actually means "the shirtless ones," although that could have been a typo -- again, something that careful editing would have caught. Evita, in fact, is referred to on almost every page and the writer's comparisons of Madonna to Eva Peron run the gamut from tedious to unintentionally hilarious.I also bought Andrew Morton's book, and it will be interesting to read the two biographies back-to-back. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five Stars *by K***G on April 12, 2018* Just a wonderful item, better than described and fast secure shipping. A++++ ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Got to Love Madonna *by T***A on December 14, 2012* I grew up listening to Madonna. She set the stage for many new pop stars. Had no idea about her personal life struggles. 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