PositiveEntertainment WeeklyWritten without the 19-time Oscar nominee’s participation (but with the help of more than 80 of her friends, colleagues, and still-fawning college boyfriends), the book’s narrow focus on Streep’s early life and drama-school days will not satisfy fans hungry for stories from Sophie’s Choice or The Devil Wears Prada. And the first hundred pages, in fact, read like a timeline of every college play in which the popular young blonde appeared...The book comes fully alive in its second half, gaining momentum as Schulman approaches his lacerating final chapter, which chronicles the making of 1979’s Oscar-winning Kramer vs. Kramer.
