#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Discover Jane Fonda, in her own words--and now experience the story of her life in the HBO documentary Jane Fonda in Five Acts. "To hold this book in your hands is to be astonished by how much living can be packed into sixty-plus years."--Los Angeles Times America knows Jane Fonda as actress and activist, feminist and wife, workout guru and role model. In this extraordinary memoir, Fonda shows that she is much more. From her youth among Hollywood's elite to her film career and her activism today, Fonda reveals intimate details and personal truths she hopes "can provide a lens through which others can see their lives and how they can live them a little differently." Surprising, candid, and wonderfully written, My Life So Far is filled with insights into the personal struggles of a woman living a remarkable life. "In the process of writing this book I discovered there were clear, broad, even universal themes that ran through my life, a coherent arc to my journey that, if I could be truthful in the telling, might provide a road map for other women as they face the challenges of relationships, self-image, and forgiveness. What I did not anticipate was how my journey would also resonate with men."--From the Introduction Praise for My Life So Far "[A] sisterly, enveloping memoir . . . an intimate, haunting book that might as well be catnip from its ever controversial author."--Janet Maslin, The New York Times "Terrific . . . rich . . . unexpectedly quite moving."--San Francisco Chronicle "Fiercely intelligent, detailed, probing, rigorously revealing."--O: The Oprah Magazine "Fonda possesses a raw and affecting candor. . . . Her honesty [is] a force."--The Philadelphia Inquirer "A fearless book . . . fascinating."--Chicago Sun-Times "Truly compelling."--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Riveting."--Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

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Title: My Life So Far
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Publication Date: 2006
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0812975766
ISBN 13: 9780812975765
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Discover Jane Fonda, in her own words--and now experience the story of her life in the HBO documentary Jane Fonda in Five Acts.
"To hold this book in your hands is to be astonished by how much living can be packed into sixty-plus years."--Los Angeles Times

America knows Jane Fonda as actress and activist, feminist and wife, workout guru and role model. In this extraordinary memoir, Fonda shows that she is much more. From her youth among Hollywood's elite to her film career and her activism today, Fonda reveals intimate details and personal truths she hopes "can provide a lens through which others can see their lives and how they can live them a little differently." Surprising, candid, and wonderfully written, My Life So Far is filled with insights into the personal struggles of a woman living a remarkable life.

"In the process of writing this book I discovered there were clear, broad, even universal themes that ran through my life, a coherent arc to my journey that, if I could be truthful in the telling, might provide a road map for other women as they face the challenges of relationships, self-image, and forgiveness. What I did not anticipate was how my journey would also resonate with men."--From the Introduction

Praise for My Life So Far
"[A] sisterly, enveloping memoir . . . an intimate, haunting book that might as well be catnip from its ever controversial author."--Janet Maslin, The New York Times

"Terrific . . . rich . . . unexpectedly quite moving."--San Francisco Chronicle

"Fiercely intelligent, detailed, probing, rigorously revealing."--O: The Oprah Magazine

"Fonda possesses a raw and affecting candor. . . . Her honesty [is] a force."--The Philadelphia Inquirer

"A fearless book . . . fascinating."--Chicago Sun-Times

"Truly compelling."--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"Riveting."--Seattle Post-Intelligencer

About the Author

Jane Fonda is an Oscar- and Emmy-winning actress and highly successful producer. She revolutionized the fitness industry with the Jane Fonda Workout in 1982 and has sold more than seventeen million copies of her fitness-focused books, videos, and recordings. She is involved with several causes and is the founder of both the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and the Jane Fonda Center at Emory University. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller My Life So Far, and she received a Tony nomination in 2009 for her role in 33 Variations. She lives in Los Angeles.

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