Description: Patsy chronicles the life of this ambitious singer, from her impoverished childhood and abuse by her father, through her struggle for success and her exploitation by record producers, to her phenomenal but short-lived recording career. Based on extensive interviews with country music's greatest -- Loretta Lynn, June Carter, Barbara Mandrell, Roy Clark, Johnny Western, songwriters Harlan Howard and Donn Hecht, and record men Owen Bradley and Don Pierce -- this book presents the first fully drawn portrait of this crossover superstar, as well as a vivid picture of the ever-expanding country music world. Hard-living and hard-loving, bawdy and ballsy, Patsy Cline surmounted unimaginable odds in the male-dominated industry to become the most popular female country singer in recording history.

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