What Would Barbra Do? by Emma Brockes

What Would Barbra Do? by Emma Brockes

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Film musicals: you either love them or they make you want to kill yourself slowly with plastic cutlery. Nothing has the power to lift your heart or turn your stomach like Howard Keel in fake sideburns singing 'Bless Your Beautiful Hide' or Julie Andrews singing... well, just about anything.

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What Would Barbra Do? by Emma Brockes

Film musicals: you either love them or they make you want to kill yourself slowly with plastic cutlery. Nothing has the power to lift your heart or turn your stomach like Howard Keel in fake sideburns singing 'Bless Your Beautiful Hide' or Julie Andrews singing... well, just about anything.
A sharply written and wickedly funny guide.. serious, silly and utterly, compellingly humane. * Daily Telegraph *
Entertaining and witty. * Independent on Sunday *
A warm, funny memoir * Mail on Sunday *
An entertaining, heartfelt, light-as-air romp: much like a good musical in fact. * Sunday Times *
Extremely funny. * Daily Express *
Emma Brockes is the author of five books, most recently Megan Rapinoe's international best-seller, One Life. Her 2013 book She Left Me the Gun was a New York Times, NPR, Amazon and Salon notable book. Her 2016 memoir An Excellent Choice was bought for the screen by Sharon Maguire and Sony and is currently being made into a movie. She lives in New York with her twin eight year old girls.
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ISBN 13 9780552773188
ISBN 10 0552773182
Title What Would Barbra Do?
Author Emma Brockes
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
Year published 2008-02-11
Number of pages 256
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.