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Get to the Heart: My Story
by Barbara Mandrell
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Bantam (1990-09-01)
ISBN: 0553057995
EAN: 9780553057997
Dewy Decimal #: 782.42164092
Hardcover: 392 pages
Release Date: 1990-09-01
SKU: 04547
Condition: Collectible: Good Fi
Comments: First edition book, no dust jacket, small writing on the inside front cover, otherwise in good condition
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
To her millions of fans around the world she is beautiful, blond, and talented. A multifaceted performer whose music strikes a chord of truth. A loving wife and mother whose traditional values and tremendous faith touch the heart. But in September 1984 fate placed Barbara Mandrell and two of her children on a Tennessee highway, where a car crossed two lanes of traffic to hit her car head-on...and Barbara Mandrell and her story book life were changed forever.
Here, for the first time, the spirited star who made her professional debut at age eleven who performed with country legends such as Patsy Cline and Johnny Cash, and who was chosen Entertainer of the Year two years running, shares her memories of the accident and her long, painful journey back. This is a chronicle of her remarkable rise to fame, a tribute to the extraordinary family who protected and sustained her. But most of all this is Barbara's own triumphant story of hard-won survival.
Get To The Heart
From the Paperback edition.
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Customer Reviews
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Awesome!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-04-05
I loved this book, I couldn't put it down. I love how the chapters leading up to the accident alternate with her early life. I couldn't wait to get to the next chapter to see what was next.
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Not What I Thought
Rating  (2)
Date: 2007-12-29
I was disappointed with this book. Being a brain injured person, I thought I might learn from Barbara's experiences, but there is very little information about her injury.
A better life story of overcoming problems with brain injury is Surviving Black Ice by David Fierce.
If you are looking for information about living with brain injury, the best book I've found is Brain Injury Survivor's Guide: Welcome to Our World. It has step-by-step methods used by the author to achieve a successful lifestyle and is easy-to-read.
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Bad and at some points offending
Rating  (1)
Date: 2005-01-10
Not to be recommended! Written poorly and of redundant content. Even though Barbara Mandrell might be a great performer and a nice person, in this book she comes across as an idiot.
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A difficult read but well worth it
Rating (5)
Date: 2004-09-29
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Let me say straight away that the reason I found this book a difficult read was simply because of the nature of the story. Half the book is about Barbara's life prior to the accident that almost killed her (and did kill somebody else unrelated and hitherto unknown to the family) and half is about her recovery from it. The recovery is sometimes a very difficult read and it may be for that reason that the book is not presented chronologically. Instead, chapters on the recovery alternate with chapters on the earlier years, so you could read about Barbara's life chronologically by reading alternate chapters.
Barbara's life was (and remains) in total contrast to so many celebrity lives. She was married to the same man throughout her career and was devoted to her family and her Christianity. No drugs, no extra-marital affairs, no hint of any kind of scandal. So although the early part of her life is of interest to her fans, of which I am one, the wider public is likely to be mainly interested in the accident and Barbara's recovery from it.
It seemed to me at the time (and subsequent events confirm it) that although Barbara made a full physical recovery - a miracle in itself - the mental scars never healed. She was less enthusiastic about her work than she had been. Perhaps this lack of enthusiasm explains why so little of her music from her peak years has ever been released on CD.
This book was in the American bestseller listings soon after publication. With Barbara's retirement from the music business, it seems that few people are interested in reading about her life any more (except her fans, who are likely to have a copy already) - this is a pity, because it's one of the more interesting country music biographies despite being a difficult read.
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Ms. Mandrell got to my heart!!!
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-10-03
Wow. Buy this book!!! This book was impossible to put down once I started reading it. This woman has more guts and courage than anyone could imagine. It's so sad that her career never really recovered after the horrible car accident she was in. Ironically the accident happened on September 11, 1984.
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