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Reckless: My Life as a Pretender
Chrissie Hynde
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Julia Felsenthal,
Vogue
As a portrait of an era, it’s fascinating; but as a window into the soul of its subject and author, it falls short.
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Evelyn McDonnell,
The Los Angeles Times
Hynde offers a story of coming of age in the heartland's baby-boom bust, with sometimes brutal passages told in her inimitable blunt, jocular and occasionally woefully tone-deaf vernacular.
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Jude Rogers,
The Guardian
The pace of the book is erratic, though, lagging tediously at times, accelerating wildly at others. It feels like it needed a tougher editor.
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Meghan O'Rourke,
The Guardian
Despite vivid details and her gift for great one-liners Hynde’s life feels oddly mediated, like a story someone else is telling.
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