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Yoko : A Biography by David Sheff (2025, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherSimon & Schuster

ISBN-101982188243

ISBN-139781982188245

eBay Product ID (ePID)5068280928

Product Key Features

Book TitleYoko : a Biography

Number of Pages384 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2025

TopicWomen, Rich & Famous, General, Entertainment & Performing Arts

IllustratorYes

GenreArt, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorDavid Sheff

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight20.3 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2025-398343

Reviews"Sheff succeeds magnificently in bringing one of popular music's most divisive and misunderstood personae to life... Yoko is required reading for die-hard Beatles fans and music lovers, to be sure, but it's also a master class about assembling the evidence and rethinking the manner in which we think about our culture's most iconic figures." -- Salon

SynopsisAn intimate and revelatory biography of Yoko Ono from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Boy. John Lennon once described Yoko Ono as the world's most famous unknown artist. "Everybody knows her name, but no one knows what she does." She has only been important to history insofar as she impacted Lennon. Throughout her life, Yoko has been a caricature, curiosity, and, often, a villain--an inscrutable seductress, manipulating con artist, and caterwauling fraud. The Lennon/Beatles saga is one of the greatest stories ever told, but Yoko's part has been missing--hidden in the Beatles' formidable shadow, further obscured by flagrant misogyny and racism. This definitive biography of Yoko Ono's life will change that. In this book, Yoko Ono takes centerstage. Yoko's life, independent of Lennon, was an amazing journey. Yoko spans from her birth to wealthy parents in pre-war Tokyo, her harrowing experience as a child during the war, her arrival in avant-garde art scene in London, Tokyo, and New York City. It delves into her groundbreaking art, music, feminism, and activism. We see how she coped under the most intense, relentless, and cynical microscope as she was falsely vilified for the most heinous cultural crime imaginable: breaking up the greatest rock-and-roll band in history. This book was nearly a half century in the making. In 1980, David Sheff met Yoko and John when Sheff conducted an in-depth interview with them just months before John's murder. In the aftermath of the killing, he and Yoko became close as she rebuilt her life, survived threats and betrayals, and went on to create groundbreaking art and music while campaigning for peace and other causes. Drawing from his experiences and interviews with her, her family, closest friends, collaborators, and many others, Sheff shows us Yoko's nine decades--one of the most unlikely and remarkable lives ever lived. Yoko is a harrowing, moving, propulsive, and vastly entertaining biography of a woman whose story has never been accurately told. The book not only rehabilitates Yoko Ono's reputation but elevates it to iconic status., In This Book, I didn't varnish the truth to depict Yoko as either a saint or a sinner. Instead, I did my best to strip the varnish away. I did my best to accurately reconstruct events and dialogue and report what actually happened. One thing I didn't have to do is surmise what Yoko is like. After decades of friendship, I know what she is like, and I did my best to show it. In these pages, I expose Yoko's missteps and failures. I reveal the depth and sources of her pain and fear. I also show her profound wisdom, wit, humor, inspiration, talent, and joy; her resilience, compassion-her triumphs and genius. Ultimately, this book is about more than a single person. To borrow from another Beatle, it's also a magical mystery tour through remarkable times and places. It's about how people are hurt and how they change. It's about survival. It's about those who see differently and think differently and suffer because of it. It's about art and creativity and the dream of peace.

LC Classification NumberNX512.O56S54 2025