The Beauty of Living Twice
(Sprache: Englisch)
Sharon Stone tells her own story: a journey of healing, love, and purpose.
She was one of the most renowned actresses in the world--until a massive stroke cost her not only her health, but her career, family, fortune, and global fame. In The Beauty of...
She was one of the most renowned actresses in the world--until a massive stroke cost her not only her health, but her career, family, fortune, and global fame. In The Beauty of...
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Sharon Stone tells her own story: a journey of healing, love, and purpose.She was one of the most renowned actresses in the world--until a massive stroke cost her not only her health, but her career, family, fortune, and global fame. In The Beauty of Living Twice, Sharon Stone chronicles her efforts to rebuild her life, and the slow road back to wholeness and health. In an industry that doesn't accept failure, in a world where too many voices are silenced, Stone found the power to return, the courage to speak up, and the will to make a difference in the lives of women and children around the globe.
Over the course of these intimate pages, as candid as a personal conversation, Stone talks about her pivotal roles, her life-changing friendships, her worst disappointments, and her greatest accomplishments. She reveals how she went from a childhood of trauma and violence to a business that in many ways echoed those same assaults, under cover of money and glamour. She describes the strength and meaning she found in her children, and in her humanitarian efforts. And ultimately, she shares how she fought her way back to find not only her truth, but her family's reconciliation and love.
Stone made headlines not just for her beauty and her talent, but for her candor and her refusal to "play nice," and it's those same qualities that make this memoir so powerful. The Beauty of Living Twice is a book for the wounded, and a book for the survivors; it's a celebration of women's strength and resilience, a reckoning, and a call to activism. It is proof that it's never too late to raise your voice, and speak out.
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Death Becomes MeI opened my eyes, and there he was standing over me, just inches from my face. A stranger looking at me with so much kindness that I was sure I was going to die. He was stroking my head, my hair; God, he was handsome. I wished he were someone who loved me instead of someone whose next words were You re bleeding into your brain.
He stood there gently touching my head and I just lay there knowing that no one in the room loved me. Knowing it in my guts not needing my bleeding brain to be aware of the ridiculous slap-down of my now-immobilized life. It was late September 2001. I was in the ER at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. I asked Dr. Handsome, Will I lose my ability to speak? He said it s possible. I wanted a phone. I needed to call my mom and my sister. They needed to hear this from me while I could still tell them myself. The doctor squeezed my hand in his. I realized he was doing his darndest to fill in with that special kind of love that comes when someone pursues the vocation that they were meant to, if only for moments like this. I learned a lot from him.
I called my sister, Kelly, first. She was as she always is: the most magnificent person I know. She is kinder to others than she is to herself, naïve in her gentleness. Then I called my mom, a more difficult conversation for me, since I didn t know if she liked me very much. Here I was, dying and insecure all at the same time. She was gardening outside in her yard on top of a mountain in Pennsylvania. She fell apart.
It s important to consider that Dot falls apart over radio commercials, so I waited, because, well, I knew she would pull it together. Despite the distance between us, she and my dad arrived in under twenty-four hours. She ran into the hospital still in her shorts, covered in gardening mud, dirt under her nails and fear on her face. Years of uncertainty and miscommunication between us fell away in a look. As I lay
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there knowing that I could die at any second, she stroked my face with her dusty hand and I suddenly felt that my mother loved me. Bit by bit.
My father stood beside her like a bull looking to charge.
I called my best friend of more than twenty years, Mimi, and said what we always said when the news was exceptionally good or bad: You d better sit down. I could hear her sharp inhale. I said, I might die and you are the only one I can tell the truth to because somebody needs to take care of everyone and it s not going to be me. I m bleeding into my brain. They don t know why.
She said, Oh, shit.
I said, There is a very good-looking doctor here, and sadly I might not be able to flirt with him.
She was trying not to cry as she whispered, Oh, honey, I m on the next plane. As I knew she would be.
Then came the silence again. Echoing off the emergency room tiles and hitting my newly broken heart. I remember feeling something between scared and fascinated that no one was running around yelling, STAT STAT! like they do on TV. There was a stunning lack of urgency and movement. The doctor yeah, that one told me an ambulance was coming to transport me to another hospital, Moffitt-Long, which was renowned for neurological issues, and that they would take special care of me.
God, that really made me feel bad. There are just times when getting special care can be such a downer. This is not like floor seats at a Laker game or getting the table by the window at your favorite restaurant. Privileges. Fame. Shit.
It was then that I suddenly felt everything moving strangely, as if the film of my life were moving through a camera backward. Fast. I started to experience a feeling of falling
My father stood beside her like a bull looking to charge.
I called my best friend of more than twenty years, Mimi, and said what we always said when the news was exceptionally good or bad: You d better sit down. I could hear her sharp inhale. I said, I might die and you are the only one I can tell the truth to because somebody needs to take care of everyone and it s not going to be me. I m bleeding into my brain. They don t know why.
She said, Oh, shit.
I said, There is a very good-looking doctor here, and sadly I might not be able to flirt with him.
She was trying not to cry as she whispered, Oh, honey, I m on the next plane. As I knew she would be.
Then came the silence again. Echoing off the emergency room tiles and hitting my newly broken heart. I remember feeling something between scared and fascinated that no one was running around yelling, STAT STAT! like they do on TV. There was a stunning lack of urgency and movement. The doctor yeah, that one told me an ambulance was coming to transport me to another hospital, Moffitt-Long, which was renowned for neurological issues, and that they would take special care of me.
God, that really made me feel bad. There are just times when getting special care can be such a downer. This is not like floor seats at a Laker game or getting the table by the window at your favorite restaurant. Privileges. Fame. Shit.
It was then that I suddenly felt everything moving strangely, as if the film of my life were moving through a camera backward. Fast. I started to experience a feeling of falling
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Autoren-Porträt von Sharon Stone
SHARON STONE is an actress, human rights activist, artist, mother, daughter, sister, and writer. She has been honored with a Nobel Peace Summit Award, a Harvard Humanitarian Award, a Human Rights Campaign Humanitarian Award, and an Einstein Spirit Award, as well as many other accolades. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her family.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Sharon Stone
- 2021, International, 256 Seiten, Maße: 14,9 x 21,4 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: KNOPF
- ISBN-10: 0525656766
- ISBN-13: 9780525656760
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.03.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
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One of Vogue's Best Books of the Year One of O Magazine s 20 Best Books to Pick Up One of Fortune s 11 New Books to Read One of CNN s 20 Most Anticipated New Books to Read One of Town & Country s 42 Must-Read Books of Spring One of Marie Claire s 25 Best Memoirs to Pre-OrderA candid, heartfelt, poignant memoir, written with grace and humor.
Harlan Coben, bestselling author of The Boy From the Woods
In this courageous, daring and tender-hearted memoir, Sharon Stone interrogates her own trauma and a myriad of losses and discovers the gift of clear seeing. The Beauty of Living Twice is so much more than a celebrity tell-all. It is an act of reckoning, contrition, and above all, love.
Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance
Elegantly written with her wicked sense of humor on full display, the memoir is catnip for fans who have never managed to crack the exterior of the elusive star.
Vogue
Stone is uncommonly candid about life, fame, and trauma.
The New Yorker
The Beauty of Living Twice is far from the glitzy account of Hollywood that readers might expect. Instead, it shows a woman who s spent the majority of her years in the public eye seizing the opportunity to tell her story entirely on her own terms.
TIME Magazine
While [The Beauty of Living Twice] contains some startling personal revelations, equally affecting is Stone s warmth and grace, qualities that, by the end, feel quite miraculous. . . . Writing with zeal and urgency, Stone argues for a stronger legal system, for rape kits on police shelves to be processed, for better training for teachers and pediatricians. Above all, she offers a hopeful glimpse of life beyond trauma. . . . The Beauty of Living Twice promises the possibility of improvement or redemption, of compassion and understanding, of living honestly.
Charles Arrowsmith,
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The Washington Post
Stone is a strong portraitist of the instant in time, and aware that stardom, like identity, is mostly a phenomenon of the memory. . . . The gossipy moments in this book are juicy. Her occasional lapses into divahood are frankly more entertaining to read than the more virtuous edit of the same event would have been. . . . The Beauty of Living Twice is a book about Sharon Stone s life, which makes it a book about how women take on multiple personas when they become very famous, then struggle to keep them in order.
Jo Livingstone, The New Republic
[The Beauty of Living Twice] charts not only the highs and lows of her career on screen but also her struggles, including medical problems that nearly killed her, in her personal life. Stone being Stone, it's all delivered with a wit and honestly that brings the book beyond your average movie-star memoir.
Town & Country
The past few years have seen a string of revelatory celebrity memoirs that aren t just promotional tools but genuine, no-holds-barred autobiographies offering nuanced looks at people we might have thought we knew . . . This year, Sharon Stone shares her story: The actress recounts how she rebuilt her life in the wake of a massive stroke and pursued a slow road back to wholeness and health.
Fortune
Fans of Stone will eat up the actress new autobiography, which chronicles not only her famous roles but also a traumatic childhood; a stroke in 2001 that, she writes, cost her both her career and savings; and her humanitarian efforts to strengthen the lives of women and children around the world.
CNN
In her candid memoir, Sharon Stone discusses how she rebuilt her life after a stroke that forever altered life as she knew it.
Marie Claire
Brave, contemplative and inspiring. . . . Stone's tough and touching memoir reveals the traumas, setbacks and gritty determination to survive and thrive that have previously been hidden beneath a beautiful façade.
Kevin Howell, Shelf Awareness
Stone delivers a bighearted, wonderfully rambling story full of wisdom and humor.
Amy Scribner, BookPage
Delivering a barrage of self-reflective anecdotes, [Stone] is consistently candid, alternatingly tender and feisty, and always witty. . . . Fans will blissfully revel in the intimate if restlessly delivered details in this perceptive memoir.
Kirkus Reviews
Bold. . . . Suffused with wry humor, Stone's storytelling alternates between literary descriptions and intimate colloquialisms. . . . The mix of moxie and vulnerability conveys a life well lived, and well examined.
Publishers Weekly
[Stone s] writing is conversational and engaging, especially as she tells the powerful stories that demonstrate resilience and grit in many facets of her life, from her childhood to her acting career and beyond. . . . A welcome memoir of finding your way when life doesn't go according to plan. Stone's vulnerability and rediscovery will resonate with many readers.
Library Journal
Stone is a strong portraitist of the instant in time, and aware that stardom, like identity, is mostly a phenomenon of the memory. . . . The gossipy moments in this book are juicy. Her occasional lapses into divahood are frankly more entertaining to read than the more virtuous edit of the same event would have been. . . . The Beauty of Living Twice is a book about Sharon Stone s life, which makes it a book about how women take on multiple personas when they become very famous, then struggle to keep them in order.
Jo Livingstone, The New Republic
[The Beauty of Living Twice] charts not only the highs and lows of her career on screen but also her struggles, including medical problems that nearly killed her, in her personal life. Stone being Stone, it's all delivered with a wit and honestly that brings the book beyond your average movie-star memoir.
Town & Country
The past few years have seen a string of revelatory celebrity memoirs that aren t just promotional tools but genuine, no-holds-barred autobiographies offering nuanced looks at people we might have thought we knew . . . This year, Sharon Stone shares her story: The actress recounts how she rebuilt her life in the wake of a massive stroke and pursued a slow road back to wholeness and health.
Fortune
Fans of Stone will eat up the actress new autobiography, which chronicles not only her famous roles but also a traumatic childhood; a stroke in 2001 that, she writes, cost her both her career and savings; and her humanitarian efforts to strengthen the lives of women and children around the world.
CNN
In her candid memoir, Sharon Stone discusses how she rebuilt her life after a stroke that forever altered life as she knew it.
Marie Claire
Brave, contemplative and inspiring. . . . Stone's tough and touching memoir reveals the traumas, setbacks and gritty determination to survive and thrive that have previously been hidden beneath a beautiful façade.
Kevin Howell, Shelf Awareness
Stone delivers a bighearted, wonderfully rambling story full of wisdom and humor.
Amy Scribner, BookPage
Delivering a barrage of self-reflective anecdotes, [Stone] is consistently candid, alternatingly tender and feisty, and always witty. . . . Fans will blissfully revel in the intimate if restlessly delivered details in this perceptive memoir.
Kirkus Reviews
Bold. . . . Suffused with wry humor, Stone's storytelling alternates between literary descriptions and intimate colloquialisms. . . . The mix of moxie and vulnerability conveys a life well lived, and well examined.
Publishers Weekly
[Stone s] writing is conversational and engaging, especially as she tells the powerful stories that demonstrate resilience and grit in many facets of her life, from her childhood to her acting career and beyond. . . . A welcome memoir of finding your way when life doesn't go according to plan. Stone's vulnerability and rediscovery will resonate with many readers.
Library Journal
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