Dream Lovers
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Published by: Grand Central Publishing
Release Date: November 1, 1995
Pages: 432
ISBN13: 978-0446602464
Overview
The son of two of Hollywood's most famous stars, Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin tells the story of his parents. These seemingly perfect all-American idols hid dark secrets including illness, alcoholism, illegitimacy and sexual abuse.
Praise
"At first glance, a book about singer Bobby Darin and his onetime wife, actress Sandra Dee, would seem to be of interest only to their son, Dodd, who happens to be the book's author. But glance again. With the help of cowriter Maxine Paetro... Darin has fashioned a real page-turner..."
–Booklist
"Darin was an extraordinarily talented singer who became a pretty good actor; Dee was an extraordinarily beautiful child model who became a pretty good actress. Both were major stars when they married-she at age 16 and he at 24... Dodd Darin relies on his own memory and on extensive recollections from the family's friends and associates. His father suffered from a heart condition that he knew would kill him at a relatively young age and that led him to concentrate on his career to a fanatical degree. His mother was a teenaged alcoholic, hobbled by an abusive childhood and an intrusive, overprotective mother who never permitted her to grow up. Their marriage was doomed from the start, and this book is their son's way of trying to deal with his conflicting feelings about their lives and his father's death. The book's tone varies from chatty to despairing but is always intensely personal..."
–Library Journal