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In her stunning first book, Margo Jefferson gives us the incontrovertible lowdown on call-him-what-you-wish; she offers a powerful reckoning with a quintessential, richly allusive signifier of American society and popular culture.

Michael Jackson: provocateur, icon, enigma.

Who was he really? And how does his spectacular rise, his catastrophic fall, reflect upon those who made him, those who broke him and those who loved him?

Almost 10 years on from Jackson's untimely death, here is Margo Jefferson's definitive and dazzling dissection of the King of Pop: a man admired for his music, his flair, his performances and censured for his skin, his erratic behaviour and, in his final years, his relationships with children.

©2006 Margo Jefferson (P)2006 Books on Tape Entertainment & Celebrities Music Social Sciences Celebrity
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The narrator has a voice and approach better suited to a light novel. Although I’m not sure if the issue is just the narrator. Either way there’s a lack of gravitas in her sing song tone and it feels like she’s reading the words with no sense of the meaning. Or it could also be that the book itself lacks substance? It’s hard to tell whether the book or the narrator is to blame, but overall this audiobook falls short. Which is disappointing for a book dealing with such serious topics as racism and child abuse.

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