Through the Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World

Summary

Through the Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World is a memoir by Lynne Spears that she co-wrote with Lorilee Craker.[1] The memoir is about Lynne's daughters: Britney and Jamie Lynn.[2] The book was announced in 2007 and published on September 16, 2008, by Thomas Nelson, a Christian publisher.[3]

Through the Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World
A three-quarter-view portrait of a woman with short hair wearing a blue dress shirt and a necklace while facing right and standing at a window she is looking through
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AuthorLynne Spears
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Subject
GenreMemoir
PublisherThomas Nelson
Publication date
September 16, 2008
Pages272
ISBN978-1-59555-156-6
782.42164/092
LC ClassML480.S714

Prior to the book's release, the National Enquirer leaked several of the book's revelations, including that Britney had started drinking alcohol at age thirteen, soon after she began appearing on American variety show The All-New Mickey Mouse Club. When Britney was seventeen, her talent manager Larry Rudolph promoted her as a virgin who continued to shun premarital sex while dating teen idol Justin Timberlake.[4]

Sam Lutfi, a former talent manager of Britney's, began a defamation lawsuit against Lynne[5] for alleging in Through the Storm that he had isolated and drugged Britney.[6] An Entertainment Tonight article by James Herman calls Through the Storm a "jaw-dropping tell-all book".[7] In an Entertainment Weekly review, Adrienne Day writes that the book only provides information that can be found on Wikipedia, therefore it’s useless, and showed the gap between mother and daughter.[8]

References edit

  1. ^ Craker, Lorilee (September 21, 2008). "On the Night Table". Winnipeg Free Press. p. D0.
  2. ^ Fisher, Luchina (September 17, 2008). "Lynn Spears Book No Bombshell". ABC News. Retrieved June 6, 2015.
  3. ^ Tiegel 2008, p. 25.
  4. ^ Wilson 2010, pp. 19–20.
  5. ^ "5 Revelations from the Britney Spears Trial". The Hollywood Reporter. October 23, 2012. Retrieved June 6, 2015.
  6. ^ Soltis, Andy (October 20, 2012). "Britney Spears Shaved Her Hair Off in 2007 to Cover Up Drug Use: Ex-Aide". New York Post. Retrieved June 6, 2015.
  7. ^ Herman, James Patrick (December 2, 2014). "Is Britney Spears the Oldest 33-Year-Old in Show Business?". Entertainment Tonight. Retrieved June 6, 2015.
  8. ^ Day, Adrienne (October 1, 2008). "I Read It So You Don't Have To: Lynne Spears' Memoir". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved June 6, 2015.

Bibliography edit

  • Tiegel, Eliot (2008). Overexposed: The Price of Fame. Phoenix Books. ISBN 978-1597775991.
  • Wilson, Leah (2010). Ardeur: 14 Writers on the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Series. BenBella Books. ISBN 978-1933771472.