Selena's Secret: The Revealing Story Behind Her Tragic Death [Paperback]

Maria Celeste Arraras (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 5, 1997

The anchorwoman on the top-rated Spanish television magazine, Primer Impacto, seen on the Univision network, reveals new details about the life and tragic death of the Latin music superstar, including information about her murderer. 50,000 first printing. Tour.

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About the Author

MarÍa Celeste ArrarÁs is the host and managing editor of "Al Rojo Vivo con MarÍa Celeste" (Red Hot Live with Maria Celeste), produced by Telemundo/NBC. She is also a guest host for NBC’s Today show and has collaborated with Dateline and NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. This Emmy award winner is also the bestselling author of Selena’s Secret and The Magic Cane. She has been featured on the cover of People en EspaÑol more times than any other celebrity and was selected by Newsweek magazine to appear on the cover of its “20 Most Powerful Women of the Next Generation" issue.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Touchstone; Original edition (March 5, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0684831937
• ISBN-13: 978-0684831930
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #559,454 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars LESS THAN ZERO STARS - a waste of good money, September 16, 2003

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This review is from: Selena's Secret: The Revealing Story Behind Her Tragic Death (Paperback)

This author should lose her job. Not only does she ramble on incessantly about trivial nonsense, such as how she washed her hair in the airport bathroom before interviewing Yolanda Saldivar, but she never gets to the reason fans wanted to read her story -- WHAT IS THE SECRET? She claims she promised Yolanda never to reveal it, however, she misleads the readers by her title and deceptive description of her story. Ms Arraras better stick to her trash tv job, or go back to college writing 101, where she can actually form a sentence that does NOT include a self-serving piece of information or a non-important remark about inconsequential things. She repeatedly toots her own horn, bragging about how she was the first to get inside to talk to Yolanda, how Selena's family grew to trust only her, how she worked so hard and so long to report the "facts" -- what BALONEY! One so-called "fact" she reported was that one attorney had huge fleks of dandruff in his hair! WHO CARES? These are the kinds of things this book talks about, nothing substantial, and certainly nothing that a true SELENA fan would care to waste time reading. The book is more a rag piece on Saldivar, and the author obviously has an affinity for her as she attempts to tell a lopsided version of the story of this talented singer's tragic death. Just save your money, PLEASE!

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A shameless attempt to cash in, September 1, 2004

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This review is from: Selena's Secret: The Revealing Story Behind Her Tragic Death (Paperback)

Arraras swears she knows "Selena's secret" and teases readers throughout but the truth is that she is just as big a liar as Yolanda Saldivar, convicted murderer. We all know the truth: SElena was brutally murdered by a cold-blooded killer who continues to garner media attention for herself from behind bars. Shameful that Arraras bought into it. Dont' waste your time

25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Save Your Money, What the heck is the secret?, March 1, 2003

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K. Allen "westoakland" (Oakland, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Selena's Secret: The Revealing Story Behind Her Tragic Death (Paperback)

I bought this book--along with Joe Nick Patoski's biography of Selena and Remembering Selena--in 1997 (along with every Selena recording I could get my hands on, that was the year I fell in love with her, but I digress...). It's the least informative of the three, and by book's end, I was still wondering just what the book's title was referring to, because Ms. Arraras didn't spell it out! Given that the author--then host of Univision's Primer Impacto--constantly refers to herself, I can't help but feel that the book is less Selena's story than a self-promotional piece. The only useful part of the book is a translated text of Arraras' interview (or at least a portion of it) with Selena's murderer Yolanda Salvidar, originally broadcast in Spanish on Univision.

Patoski's "Selena" is far more comprehensive its depiction of the strange goings-on of the entertainer's final months. Read it instead