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Dream Lovers: The Magnificent Shattered Lives of Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee - by Their Son Dodd Darin | 
 enlarge | Author: Dodd Darin
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $35.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 153884
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0446517682
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.43028092273
EAN: 9780446517683
ASIN: 0446517682
Publication Date: September 29, 1994
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Condition: clean tight text! age spots to top outer edge of pages. minor wear to dust cover. PLEASE VERIFY YOUR SHIPPING ADDRESS TO AVOID DELAYS! average shipping is 7-10 business days media mail. need it quicker choose expedited shipping! thanks!
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Product Description
The son of Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin, using his own memories, interviews, letters, and rare photographs, chronicles his parents' lives, which were full of illness, family secrets, and the horror of childhood abuse.
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Dreamlovers January 3, 2009
Thank you Dodd Darin for giving us a look into the lives of your Mom and Dad. We had no idea of how complex their lives were. We loved Sandra she was so cute and innocent looking she was every teenage girl at that time and all the girls loved Bobby. It made sense that they married but none of us understood why it didn't last or what their lives were like before they even met.
I will always miss them!
Fast and efficient November 29, 2008
Excellent seller. They were very fast and I received the book in record time.
Sandra Dee -emotional wreck-thanks to her mother April 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Reading this book made me realize how malignant a place Hollywood is to a black widow -who eat and abuse their young- this is the mother of Sandra Dee. It's amazing her son Dodd-who wrote the book-turned out as normal as he did. Bobbie Darin while talented was a self absorbed narcissist-who care nothing for others, but the real tragedy was Sandra Dee. Raised by a mother who was as sick and selfish to literally give her 8 year old daughter to her new husband sexually-for financial profit-and who is may have also slept with her son in law-Bobbie Darin. It is no wonder that Sandra Dee degenerated into the pathetic anorexic falling down drunk. Such a pretty women-such an awful putrid-sordid life. Hollywood...her mother is too often the type of stage mother it attracts and also the projected image of Sandra Dee -the Hollywood manufactured myth was just smoke and mirrors-hiding human misery.
Love &Sadness all in one September 15, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It must be so hard for some of the offspring of Stars to front their demons. I do believe these two stars loved greatly but coming from different backgrounds was always going to be difficult.Their working days were completely opposite which had to cause friction. However I have passed this book around for others to enjoy. Unfortunately Sandra's addiction to alcohol would have been difficult for Bobby as he did not like this scene. His problems lay elsewhere. Nonetheless two great talents produced a loving son. Great read.
Loved this bio- very well written August 1, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is a touching recollection of the glorious, yet shattered lives of Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin, the Dream Lovers of the title who were entertainment superstars during the late 50s and 60s. Their son Dodd along with his co-writer Maxine Paetro did a terrific job in telling his family's heartbreaking story by getting input from many of the people closest to his parents. I would also recommend picking up the DVD of Bobby's last TV show in 73 "Mack is Back" along with reading Dream Lovers. They go well together.
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