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Audition: A Memoir by: Barbara Walters List Price: CDN$ 34.00 City Travel Guides Price: CDN$ 21.42 You Save: CDN$12.58 (37%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 070.92 EAN: 9780307266460 ISBN: 030726646X Label: Knopf Manufacturer: Knopf Number Of Pages: 624 Publication Date: May 06, 2008 Publisher: Knopf Release Date: May 06, 2008 Studio: Knopf Sales Rank: 1292 Related Items:
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 Rating: - My ViewThis is a great read! I feel like I have known so many people better after I've finished reading it. Barbara Walters' writing made me feel I was reading a book written by someone I know instead of a media icon. What a life! How can one woman who has a young daughter have travelled that much, met so many heads of state including dictators, dated so many prominent men,and had such a colourful career. I think it's important that Barbara recorded the sexism she has faced in her career that spanned five decades. It's interesting to know the men who had given her a hard time had either been let go or died of cancer. It made me wonder which is the cause, and which is the effect. Regretably, today sexism remains alive everywhere. To keep it brief, ... Read More: Rating: - An Extraordinary Life and BookAt nine o'clock this morning, I arrived at Barnes and Noble, picked up Audition and sat down to read with a cup of coffee. I read for hours, bought the book and continued reading at home. At over 600 pages, this book cannot be read in a day. However, I have read enough to report that the book is magnificent; extremely well- written, very pleasurable to read and absolutely fascinating. Thankfully, there is also a detailed index. I found myself eying the index and flipping through to certain sections. I enjoyed reading about Walters' experience with the application form and other details at my alma mater, Sarah Lawrence College. Open this book and on the inside jacket is a listing of the hundreds (thousands?) ... Read More: |
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