The Beauty of Living Twice - Sharon Stone

The Beauty of Living Twice

By Sharon Stone

  • Release Date: 2021-03-30
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Score: 4
4
From 121 Ratings

Description

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • Sharon Stone tells her own story: a journey of healing, love, and purpose. “Not your typical Hollywood autobiography. Brutally honest, restless and questing.” —O, The Oprah Magazine

Sharon Stone, one of the most renowned actresses in the world, suffered a massive stroke that cost her not only her health, but her career, family, fortune, and global fame. In The Beauty of Living Twice, Stone chronicles her efforts to rebuild her life and writes about her slow road back to wholeness and health. In a business 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 men, 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 career in an industry 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.

Reviews

  • Strange prose and construction of story

    2
    By Atreyes5
    I am quite sure this book could have been amazing, but sadly it’s not. It’s poorly written, reads like an unedited manuscript and the innumerable back and forth made me dizzy. Love Sharon, though. Gutsy woman.
  • Very Touching at Times

    5
    By dhfkaf
    I preordered the book as one of my favorite movies is “The Quick and the Dead.” The book was hard to follow at times but very interesting. Once I got used to the way the story jumped around I found it very touching and motivational. Sharon went through so many problems, both medical and emotional, and yet came out of them doing so much good for so many different types of people. I really admire her!
  • Sharon Stone The Beauty of Living Twice

    2
    By StarMountain#7
    I have always admire Sharon Stone, but a story writer she is not, there is too much jumping around in the book, you get interested in a subject, than it will jump back to something she discussed 2 chapters back, so I rated this book just 2 stars.