Like a Virgin Madonna Revealed by Douglas Thompson - 1991

Great Britain: BCA, 1991. Hardcover Through his exclusive interviews with many of the key figures in her life - family, friends, lovers and colleagues, including Sean Penn, Emilio Estevez and Warren Beatty - the author traces Madonna's story from her Italian-Catholic childhood in Michigan through to her meteoric rise in a business in which she determed to become the best. He has sought out her roots in Italy; talked to her school friends about the boys she chased and the nuns who chased her; and takes us around her current home in the Hollywood Hills - an intimate look at how she lives. Thompson investigates her claims of lesbian affairs, fulled by the banned Justify My Love video. He probes into her disastrous marriage to maverick actor, Sean Penn, and reveals for the first time how far Penn went in terrorising and sexually humiliating his wife who once believed their marriage would last forever. Thompson's interview with Warren Beatty casts a new light on another personal conflict when… Read More

Great Britain: BCA, 1991. Hardcover Slight shelf wear to top edge of D/J. Through his exclusive interviews with many of the key figures in her life - family, friends, lovers and colleagues, including Sean Penn, Emilio Estevez and Warren Beatty - the author traces Madonna's story from her Italian-Catholic childhood in Michigan through to her meteoric rise in a business in which she determed to become the best. He has sought out her roots in Italy; talked to her school friends about the boys she chased and the nuns who chased her; and takes us around her current home in the Hollywood Hills - an intimate look at how she lives. Thompson investigates her claims of lesbian affairs, fulled by the banned Justify My Love video. He probes into her disastrous marriage to maverick actor, Sean Penn, and reveals for the first time how far Penn went in terrorising and sexually humiliating his wife who once believed their marriage would last forever. Thompson's interview with Warren Beatty casts a new light… Read More

BCA. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Near fine condition.BCA edition by arrangement with Smith Gryphon,1991.Purple hardback(silver lettering to the spine,two small nicks on the cover) with Dj(a couple of creases,nicks and scratch on the Dj cover),both in near fine condition.Illustrated with colour,b/w photos.Nice and clean pages with two small ink marks on the outer edges,two small ink marks on the edges of the pages,small pencil mark impression on the edge of the first blank page of the book.Nice and clean book with light shelf wear on the Dj cover(small ink mark inside the Dj cover).202pp including index.BCA edition.