Madonna: A Rebel Life - THE ULTIMATE GIFT FOR ANY MADONNA FAN by Mary Gabriel Ha

Description: Madonna by Mary Gabriel In this riveting and immersive biography, acclaimed author Mary Gabriel details the meteoric rise and enduring influence of perhaps the greatest pop icon of the modern era: Madonna. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description *A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR | A GUARDIAN MEMOIR OF THE YEAR | A TELEGRAPH BEST MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR *Chronicles, in enthralling detail, Madonna Louise Ciccones path from terrifyingly ambitious trainee dancer to pop colossus, all the while placing her in a wider social and cultural context. GUARDIAN MAGAZINEGabriel charts her extraordinary life, right through to pop icon. She deserves a biographer as meticulous, intelligent and insightful as Gabriel. DAILY MAILMadonna built the house in which nearly all female artists now live . . . A Rebel Life brings home not just her obvious willpower and strength, but her fearlessness and sheer intelligence DAILY TELEGRAPHA fascinating take on one of musics greatest icons BELFAST TELEGRAPHIts a mark of Gabriels skill that she has managed to wrestle this complex, sprawling, eventful life into a book that rarely flags and conveys its subjects wider significance without tipping into hagiography. We come to understand Madonna the person as well as Madonna the concept: a woman who, for a generation, embodied female artistic, sexual and financial liberation. GUARDIANIn this exceptional biography, Pulitzer Prize finalist Mary Gabriel chronicles the meteoric rise and enduring influence of the greatest female pop icon of the modern era: Madonna.With her arrival on the music scene in the early 1980s, Madonna generated nothing short of an explosion - as great as that of Elvis or the Beatles - taking the nation by storm with her liberated politics and breathtaking talent. But Madonna was more than just a pop star. Everywhere, fans gravitated to her as an emblem of a new age, one in which feminism could shed the buttoned-down demeanour of the 1970s and feel relevant to a new generation. Amid the scourge of AIDS, she brought queer identities into the mainstream, fiercely defending a persons right to love whomever - and be whoever - they wanted. Despite fierce criticism, she never separated her music from her political activism. And as an artist, she never stopped experimenting. Madonna existed to push past boundaries by creating provocative, visionary music, videos, films and live performances that changed culture globally. Deftly tracing Madonnas story from her Michigan roots to her rise to super-stardom, master biographer Mary Gabriel captures the dramatic life and achievements of one of the greatest artists of our time. Author Biography Mary Gabriel is the author of Ninth Street Women, Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement that Changed Modern Art, which won the 2022 NYU/Axinn Foundation Prize for narrative non-fiction and the 2019 Library of Virginia and Virginia Museum of Fine Artss Mary Lynn Kotz Award. Gabriels previous book, Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also the author of Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored and The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta and Claribel Cone. She worked in Washington and London as a Reuters editor for nearly two decades and lives in Ireland. Review Mary Gabriel has dared to write a biography of a woman with whom the entire world is on a first-name basis. Here, she reveals Madonna as a rock-and-roll suffragette, managing the stress test of her personal life and using the power of music to bring about social change. Exquisitely detailed in her storytelling, Gabriel convinces us that we all still vogue in the House of Madonna -- Brad Gooch, author of CITY POET: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF FRANK OHARAMary Gabriels astonishing book with its pointillist detail feels fresh, surprising, vital, and necessary. Its thrilling to be reminded of how brave Madonna has been-to a fault! It doesnt matter where it springs from, because the results are the same: a singular, towering career that changed the culture -- Jonathan Van Meter, author of THE LAST GOOD TIMEMary Gabriel eloquently tells the engrossing story of how Madonna combined music, dance, art, fashion, theater and pop stardom to develop a completely contemporary way to be an artist. It chronicles how her embrace of the artistic vanguard transformed popular culture -- Jeffrey Deitch, author of ART IN THE STREETSMadonna built the house in which nearly all female artists now live . . . A Rebel Life brings home not just her obvious willpower and strength, but her fearlessness and sheer intelligence -- Suzanne Moore * Daily Telegraph *This meticulous study puts the shape-shifting star in proper context . . . Its a mark of Gabriels skill that she has managed to wrestle this complex, sprawling, eventful life into a book that rarely flags and conveys its subjects wider significance without tipping into hagiography * Guardian, *Book of the Day* * Details ISBN1529332001 Author Mary Gabriel Pages 880 Publisher Hodder & Stoughton Year 2023 ISBN-10 1529332001 ISBN-13 9781529332001 Format Hardcover Imprint Coronet Books Country of Publication United Kingdom Audience General Publication Date 2023-10-10 UK Release Date 2023-10-10 DEWEY 782.42166092 Subtitle A Rebel Life - THE ULTIMATE GIFT FOR ANY MADONNA FAN NZ Release Date 2024-01-24 AU Release Date 2024-01-24 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:147797415;

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