Product Description

In this jaw-dropping account of Sondra Locke's thirteen-year relationship with Clint Eastwood, the actress reveals not only the good, romantic times with the legendary actor but also the bad times, when he controlled her career and manipulated her into being the perfect little woman at home. Locke also unveils the explosive details of what led them into the courtroom, and finally, shares the story of her triumph over breast cancer. of photos.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #196712 in Books
• Published on: 1997-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 371 pages

Review
Of course the big lure ... is Locke's evisceration of Eastwood, with whom she lived for 13 years until they split up in 1989 in spectacularly messy fashion.... Locke is at her best recounting what it's like to live in the bubble of a superstar. -- Entertainment Weekly

Customer Reviews

Interesting, well-written book gives chilling look at H'wood
First things first: I love Clint Eastwood and his films, but just as with Albert Goldman's The Lives of John Lennon, I can read a book that details the sordid aspects of a person's character and still retain my love for their work and for them as an artist. Personally I find the fact that Eastwood, like Lennon, is no one's ideal as a person is irrelevant to my appreciation of their art, though it does seem that dysfunctionality is a hallmark of the best artists.

Sondra Locke's autbiography is a must read for all Eastwood fans as it does help give a fuller picture of Eastwood. The book is well-written and, when focused on her relationship with Eastwood and the movie industry, quite a fascinating read...a real page turner. I don't know quite what to think about Ms. Locke's relationship with her husband Gordon, but you can always skip over those pages!

Excellent - A Real Page Turner!
I have to admit that I never really liked Sondra Locke or Clint Eastwood and only read the book because it was handed to me as something that I just had to read... Sondra Locke's ability to tell her story is absolutly breathtaking. She is someone I have now come to admire. I do not beleive the book is as much about Clint Eastwood as most people would have you believe, but instead it is about a woman's journey through life and Hollywood - Clint is mentioned because he was part of it - I found the sections of the book that had nothing to do with him a lot more interesting anyway. One of the things that touched me the most about this book is the author's ability to honestly state that she never thought to tell Clint to have surgery himself - it never even crossed her mind. She admits her mistakes in life and speaks about the lessons she learned along the way - something we all go through daily. Her relationship with Gordon Anderson is something very special - How many of us in the world can honestly say that we have had, ourselves, someone that has loved us and we have loved equally in return since childhood - through the good times, tears and triumphs? Both Sondra and Gordon are very special people in my opinion and this is a book everyone should read. Forget Eastwood!

Sensitive, well-written, and horrifying
One of the strangest Hollywood stories I've ever read - strange largely because it is so sensitively written in spite of the nastiness of the "plot." Locke paints a truly terrifying, creepy portrait of Mr. Eastwood, the American hero who is apparently a self-centered, manipulative, sociopathic control freak. What gives Locke so much credibility is the love she still clearly feels for her ex-lover, the fact that she is not writing out of anger but out of love and sadness. Eastwood's two-faced twists and turns are too peculiar not to be the real deal. This is an amazing book. My heart goes out to Locke, who seems to have been black-balled in Hollywood, and who was bumped from many TV talk shows (unable to adequately promote this fine memoir) and whose rave review in Entertainment Weekly was even pulled from publication by execs at the last minute - and replaced with a negative review! Entertainment Weekly was part of AOL-Time Warner - Warner being Clint's studio. (SO much for freedom of the press!) The man instills fear in peoples' hearts - and he'll instill it in yours after you read this bizarre love story.