Purchase
The Life of Karen Carpenter
Chicago Review Press
May 2010
On Sale: May 17, 2010
385 pages
ISBN: 1556529767
EAN: 9781556529764
Hardcover
Add to Wish List
Non-Fiction
Little Girl Blue is an intimate profile of Karen Carpenter,
a girl from a modest Connecticut upbringing who became a
Southern California superstar. Karen was the instantly recognizable lead singer
of the Carpenters. The top-selling American musical act of
the 1970s, they delivered the love songs that defined a
generation. Karen’s velvety voice on a string of 16
consecutive Top 20 hits from 1970 to 1976—including “Close
to You,” “We’ve Only Just Begun,” “Rainy Days and Mondays,”
“Superstar,” and “Hurting Each Other”—propelled the duo to
worldwide stardom and record sales of more than 100 million.
During their short musical career, the Carpenters released
ten studio albums, toured more than 200 days a year, taped
five television specials, and won three Grammys and an
American Music Award. But that’s only a part of Karen’s story. Little
Girl Blue reveals Karen’s heartbreaking struggles with her
mother, brother, and husband; the intimate disclosures she
made to her closest friends; her love for playing drums and
her frustrated quest for solo stardom; and the ups and downs
of her treatment for anorexia nervosa. After her shocking
death at 32 years of age in 1983, she became the proverbial
poster child for that disorder; but the other causes of her
decline are laid bare for the first time in this moving account. Little Girl Blue is Karen Carpenter’s definitive
biography, based on exclusive interviews with her innermost
circle of girlfriends and nearly 100 others, including
professional associates, childhood friends, and lovers. It
tells a story as touching, warm, and involving as any of
Karen’s greatest songs.
Comments
No comments posted.
Registered users may leave comments.
Log in or register now!
| 
© 2003-2025 off-the-edge.net
all rights reserved Privacy Policy