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Award-winning actress Drew Barrymore shares funny, insightful, and profound stories from her past and present told from the place of happiness she's achieved today.
Wildfloweris a portrait of Drew's life in stories as she looks back on the adventures, challenges, and incredible experiences of her earlier years. It includes tales of living on her own at 14 (and how laundry may have saved her life), getting stuck in a gas station overhang on a cross country road trip, saying goodbye to her father in a way only he could have understood, and many more adventures and lessons that have led her to the successful, happy, and healthy place she is today. It is the first book Drew has written about her life since the age of 14.
Award-winning actress Drew Barrymore shares funny, insightful, and profound stories from her past and present told from the place of happiness she's achieved today.
Wildfloweris a portrait of Drew's life in stories as she looks back on the adventures, challenges, and incredible experiences of her earlier years. It includes tales of living on her own at 14 (and how laundry may have saved her life), getting stuck in a gas station overhang on a cross country road trip, saying goodbye to her father in a way only he could have understood, and many more adventures and lessons that have led her to the successful, happy, and healthy place she is today. It is the first book Drew has written about her life since the age of 14.
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Due to publisher restrictions the library cannot purchase additional copies of this title, and we apologize if there is a long waiting list. Be sure to check for other copies, because there may be other editions available.
About the Author-
Drew Barrymore starred in E.T. at the age of 6 and has gone on to win critical acclaim and the hearts of fans for years in such movies as The Wedding Singer, Ever After, and Charlie's Angels, just to name a few.
Reviews-
September 14, 2015 For those seeking gory details of film star Barrymore’s misspent youth, there’s not much to be found in this low-key memoir. Instead, she brings honesty, sweetness, and humor to the tale of how she fought to earn the hard-won wisdom that steered her from being a 12-year-old former child star to becoming a beloved actor. When Barrymore wisely gets emancipated at 14—her father was homeless and her mother didn’t even know enough to pack a lunch for her on school days—she’s a high school dropout who lacks basic survival skills. Mastering doing her own laundry truly gives the defeated Barrymore a new lease on life: she gains confidence and purpose while also educating herself, devouring book after book at the laundromat. Of course her trademark goofy oddball humor is present as she recalls teenage loves, but there’s also growth and a blossoming realization that she can turn her love of work and her desires to do something meaningful into a career. After being welcomed back as an actor and then a producer, Barrymore has shifted to a life that’s less Hollywood-driven, focusing on her cosmetics company, Flower Beauty, and her home life. In the end, Barrymore has written a warm and inviting narrative. Agent: Simon Green, CAA.
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Actress Drew Barrymore delivers a sprightly, bubbly account of her life in a series of anecdotes with numerous jump cuts in time and location. The effort is, at moments, as entrancing as champagne bubbles, but that lightness of spirit is compromised by the rampant use of vulgar language. The famous child-actress-turned-adult is cheery, but she undercuts her message of lessons learned with disjointed, confusing prose. This second memoir by Barrymore may simply not have been needed at this time. The audiobook may appeal to fans; otherwise, it may be one to pass. W.A.G. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine
