Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

Chrissie Hynde

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Publisher

Doubleday

Date

September 8, 2015

Memoir
Music
Non-Fiction

In her memoir, Chrissie Hynde tells exactly where she came from and what her crooked, winding path to stardom entailed.

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Pan 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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Mixed 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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Pan 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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