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Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business |  | Author: Dolly Parton
Publisher: Harpercollins (Mm)
Category: Book
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 163034
Media: Paperback
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Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 0061092363
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.421642092
EAN: 9780061092367
ASIN: 0061092363
Publication Date: June 1995
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The successful country-western star discusses her life, including her first visit to Nashville at age eighteen, marriage to the private Carl, difficult partnership with Porter Wagoner, business ventures, and personal relationships. Reprint.
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 Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business July 31, 2009
Carmen Y. Kennedy
I love this book. Actually I read it a few years ago and gave it away and decided I wanted to read it again and keep it forever. Dolly is so awesome and so honest, very very good read!
A True Diamond November 25, 2007
K. Jamieson (Ontario Canada)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As you would expect (if you're a fan of her songwriting) Dolly gives you the picture of her life in an honest, straightforward and sometimes amusing manner. Through tales of her own misdeeds and beliefs while growing up in a family that she admits didn't always play well together, she looks at her memories and can see how they shaped her into the performer that she always wanted to be. The little girl who loved to dream, make up her own songs and read everything she could get her hands on did get to be the center of attention as a much-loved entertainer, a shrewd and proficient businesswoman and a ceaseless humanitarian.
But through it all she remained the caring, considerate person she had been raised to be. The rough little stone truly did prove to be a shining diamond; sparkling, tough as nails and valuable to the fans who love her for the beauty that shines from within. There's no one like Dolly!
A very informative book! September 21, 2007
Oscar S. Bain
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I guess everyone knows or has seen Dolly Parton perform. She knows how to take a lemon and make lemonade out of life's challenges. I highly recommend the reading of this book.
 Hoping for a sequel, though May 22, 2007
Calliope (Twin Oaks)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The best thing about Dolly Parton's autobio is 'hearing' her VOICE come through the print. Eternally optimistic and carefully eccentric, there's no doubt Parton has one of the most blithesome star qualities in the biz. And why not - it's her business to be so lovable.
While she hedges (considerably) on her 'indentured servitude' with Porter Waggoner and speaks infrequently about her creative process (writing and recording), when she gets a topic that pleases her - such as her childhood exploits - Parton lets go like one of her coolest numbers. Her humanism seems unbounded.
Since the publication of this book, Parton, confounding all reasonable expectations, returned to the studio with a revitalized muse, producing some of her most credible work (Grass Is Blue, and onward). Hopefully, we shall 'hear' Parton speak of her artistic reinvention in a future volume.
A laugh a page March 5, 2007
H. Dickey (Los Angeles, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I knew Dolly Parton had a good sense of humor but I didn't know it was as far out as it is. Although I've been a fan for a long time, I'm a "lazy" fan and didn't even realize she had an autobiography out there until recently. Just to think I could have been laughing 13 years ago. Duh! If you're feeling down and need a laugh, get this book. Dolly needs her own TV show and if the people who run Hollywood had good sense, she would have had it long ago. Of course, they don't so they would have probably put the wrong writers on it and it would have been cancelled in a week.
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