Carefully researched, filled with numerous anecdotes collected from fans and with insights gathered from Etheridge's friends and colleagues, Our Little Secret also features a useful bibliography of some 250 sources and a comprehensive discography. Biographer Joyce Luck, a devoted fan, chronicles the artist's personal and professional accomplishments to date and anticipates even greater achievements.
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Joyce Luck is an assistant professor of English. She lives in San Carlos, California.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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Breathtaking honesty finally reveiled!,
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This review is from: Melissa Etheridge: Our Little Secret (Paperback)
Melissa has always been a favorite artist of mine since my girlfriend and I found a tape of hers on the dollar rack in a Walgreens in CA. We discovered that she had more than one tape, and we immediately went to find the others. Everything us nosy fans wants to know is in this book. That and more! I would most definitly encourage and Melissa fan to read this book and to buy a copy to add to your personal library. It is a must have info book!!!
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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I LOVED IT!!,
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This review is from: Melissa Etheridge: Our Little Secret (Paperback)
This is a wonderful biography on Melissa Etheridge. I have
followed Melissa's carreer for quite a number of years now
and still found a ton of information in this book that I
never knew. It is extremely well-written and obviously
well-researched. And the pictures are just stupendous. A
real MUST for even the most casual Melissa fan!
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Beautifully integrates The Perfomer with the The Person,
By A Customer
This review is from: Melissa Etheridge: Our Little Secret (Paperback)
The biographer's perspective is most often the key factor in
a successful biography, and when the bio is unauthorized, that
loss of first person perspective is often the weakness of such a
project. For this reason, I always approach an unauthorized bio
with a lot of skepticism. In the case of Joyce Luck's Our Little
Secret, this skepticism was completely unfounded.
The narrative perspective in Our Little Secret maintains consstant
attribution of information to first hand sources, either by quoting
friends of the performer who were willing to be named in the book,
or quoting directly from a wealth of interviews given by Etheridge
to magazines, television and radio interviewers. No information is included
without being attributed to a good source, and Luck never presumes
the facts of any personal or professional vignette presented, instead
providing quotes and substantiated facts and leaving the reader to draw
their own conclusion.
The book is awash with detail and depth of setting, and frames the path which
Etheridge took from small town girl to Rock Star with new personal information
provided by former friends and acquaintances. While this new information, much of it
never previously published, adds to the total picture this fan previously had of
Etheridge, it is never personal enough to make the principled reader cringe, and never
goes beyond the admittedly revealing boundaries set by the artist herself.
More importantly, this version of Etheridge's life includes detail and nuance of her
early days which flesh out the lesbian culture she lived in and which created much
of her frame of reference in her early work. Emphasis on the personal life only leads
up to the establishing of her career, though, and beyond that chronological point the
focus is on the music and the lyrics which have made Etheridge the Rock Star.
Most uniquely, I have never seen a bio which so includes the Fan in the phenomenon of
the Star, and in this case its such an accurate picture. Photos taken by fans and first
hand accounts of their meetings with Etheridge keep the book personal, and add a great
deal to its appeal. Fitting for an artist who seems to like her fans more than most who
suffer fame at the level she does.
Overall, a fun read and a good mix of career and personal highlights, and a superior
collection of not previously published photos, both color and b&w.
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