The End of Innocence: A Memoir - Softcover

Bono, Chastity; Kort, Michele

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9781555837952: The End of Innocence: A Memoir

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ISBN 10: 1555837956 ISBN 13: 9781555837952

Publisher: Advocate Books, 2003

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For the first time, Chastity Bono shares the moving story of her early adulthood: how her traumatic tabloid outing as the openly gay daughter of Sonny and Cher threatened her burgeoning musical career, and how her first true love was taken from her by cancer. At an early age, Chastity survived challenges many of us never face. A story of love won and lost, of dreams fulfilled and destroyed, The End of Innocence is a coming-of-age story that provides a deeply personal look into the private struggles of a very public and courageous woman.

Chastity Bono was first known as the daughter of Sonny Bono and Cher, when she made appearances on her parents' TV show, The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour. She established her own identity after coming out on the cover of The Advocate in 1995 and went on to become a reporter for the magazine. Since then, she's worked as the 1996 National Coming Out Project's spokesperson for the HRC. From 1997 to 1998, she was the Entertainment -Media Director for GLAAD. She is also the author of the bestselling Family Outing and continues to lecture around the country.

Michele Kort is an award-winning journalist whose writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times Magazine, L.A. Weekly, Shape, Redbook, Self and The Advocate. A Los Angeles resident, she is also the author of Soul Picnic: The Music and Passion of Laura Nyro.

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About the Author:

Chastity Bono has been a celebrity since she toddled onstage during her parents' top-rated television show. She has been a musician, an activist, and a writer. A former reporter at large for The Advocate, she is also the author of Family Outing.

Michele Kort is a freelance writer whose writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times Magazine, L.A. Weekly, Shape, Redbook, Self, and The Advocate. She is also the author of the forthcoming Soul Picnic: The Music and Passion of Laura Nyro.

From Publishers Weekly:

If Bono's story doesn't end up as a Lifetime TV movie, it will at least merit an episode of E! Hollywood True Story. The lesbian daughter of Sonny and Cher follows up her excellent coming out guide, Family Outing (1998), with a slim, honest memoir covering her turbulent life in the years between 1988 and '93. Bono and her girlfriend, Rachel, formed a band, hoping that performing together would revitalize their waning relationship but things didn't work out that way. The Star tabloid outed Bono shortly after she and Rachel signed a record deal with Geffen Records. The two novices stayed closeted while they tried to record a CD and deal with Rachel's alcoholism and the fact that Bono had fallen in love with Joan, a beautiful, 40-something friend of the family who had just been diagnosed with cancer. Bono's fear of confrontation drags out the misery for this love triangle (and the reader) during the book's middle section, which sometimes plays like an overwrought episode of MTV's Real World. Oddly, the recording-studio scenes lack passion, and with no discussion of lyrics or orchestrations, Bono seems like an outsider in her own musical group; it's hard for the reader to feel much empathy when their single tanks. The last half of the book, when Bono commits to Joan just as her health begins to deteriorate, packs an emotional punch with brutally frank depictions of loving and living with a person with a terminal illness. Bono spares no one, including herself, with a wrenching and exhausting finish.
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