LITTLE GIRL BLUE: THE LIFE OF KAREN CARPENTER
Book ID/图书代码： 06564010B43703
English Summary/英文概要： 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. 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 childhood friends, professional associates, and lovers.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 凱倫・卡本特，木匠兄妹合唱團的傳奇女主唱，她的一生充滿了音樂的榮耀和生命的辛酸。卡本特家最初被看好的音樂奇才，其實是她的哥哥，擁有出色的音樂才華和深厚的音樂底蘊。然而，命運的不經意轉折卻在某次的契機下降臨在凱倫的身上。在一場不經意的演出中，她優美獨特的聲線掩蓋了哥哥的光芒，她也從此成為了木匠兄妹合唱團最引人注目的巨星。然而，這看似美好的開始或許也是悲劇的開端。本書首次揭露了凱倫與家人之間複雜的磨擦與糾葛。書中細緻地探討了她與母親的關係，以及她和哥哥之間的競爭與合作，呈現出一個家庭內部錯綜複雜的情感。此外本書也深入挖掘了凱倫對最親密的朋友透露的私密心事，揭示了她內心深處的孤獨和掙扎。
Awards/获奖情况："[A] heart-rending biography . . . The author relates Karen’s story in writing as fluid and affectless as her singing . . . As Schmidt details Karen’s unstoppable fall, Little Girl Blue becomes one of the saddest tales in pop . . . This compassionate book gives a tortured waif the third dimension she deserved." —New York Times Book Review
“Heartbreaking. . . . Schmidt succeeds in bringing a gifted, troubled musician to vivid life.” —People
“Told with compassion and understanding, this poignant and richly fascinating story of Karen Carpenter reads more like a novel you can’t put down than the extensively and impeccably researched biography it actually is.” —David Kaufman, author of Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door
“A fascinating, and at times harrowing, read. . . . Schmidt adds vital new information to our understanding of this contradictory and conflicted artist. . . . We know how her story ends, but Schmidt has made it as absorbing as it is deeply humane.” —Blurt
“[Schmidt’s] fresh perspective reanimates the rise and fall of an American recording icon. . . . [A] dense, fact-filled treatment, which carefully skirts sensationalism while exposing new truths in this haunting tragedy.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Very comprehensive . . . heartbreaking.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune
"The copious research and quick-moving narration make this a volume that die-hard Carpenters fans and casual listeners alike will find interesting." —Publishers Weekly
“Like most of Karen Carpenter’s songs, this book pulls you in and triggers more emotion than you bargained for. Finally, the story of this angelic voice is told.” —Stephen Cox, author of The Munsters: A Trip Down Mockingbird Lane
About the Author/作者介绍： Randy L. Schmidt is the author of the critically-acclaimed LITTLE GIRL BLUE: THE LIFE OF KAREN CARPENTER and compiled and edited the newly updated and expanded YESTERDAY ONCE MORE: THE CARPENTER READER. He has served as creative consultant for several television documentaries on the Carpenters, including the E! "True Hollywood Story," A&E’s "Biography," and VH1’s "Behind the Music." Randy teaches music in Denton, Texas.
Format:电子手稿
Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE
Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：SOLD
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