Madonna: A Rebel Life - The Biography

Mary Gabriel's biography of Madonna, A Rebel Life, is a comprehensive account of the singer's life and career. Gabriel captures Madonna's journey from a young dancer to a pop icon, placing her in a wider social and cultural context. The book received critical acclaim, including being named a Sunday Times Book of the Year, a Guardian Memoir of the Year, and a Telegraph Best Music Book of the Year. Gabriel's meticulous research and insightful analysis of Madonna's life and work make it a must-read for fans and scholars alike.

Format: Hardback
Length: 880 pages
Publication date: 10 October 2023
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

A Rebel Life is a captivating and illuminating journey through Madonna's extraordinary life, from her humble beginnings as a trainee dancer to her meteoric rise to pop icon. Gabriel's meticulous research and insightful analysis provide a deep understanding of Madonna's complex personality and her enduring impact on popular culture.

A Sunday Times Book of the Year | A Guardian Memoir of the Year | A Telegraph Best Music Book of the Year

Chronicles, in enthralling detail, Madonna Louise Ciccone's path from terrifyingly ambitious trainee dancer to pop colossus, all the while placing her in a wider social and cultural context.

GUARDIAN MAGAZINE Gabriel charts her extraordinary life, right through to pop icon. She deserves a biographer as meticulous, intelligent, and insightful as Gabriel.

DAILY MAIL Madonna built the house in which nearly all female artists now live . . . A Rebel Life brings home not just her obvious willpower and strength, but her fearlessness and sheer intelligence

DAILY TELEGRAPH A fascinating take on one of music's greatest icons

BELFAST TELEGRAPH It's a mark of Gabriel's skill that she has managed to wrestle this complex, sprawling, eventful life into a book that rarely flags and conveys its subject's wider significance without tipping into hagiography.

We come to understand Madonna the person as well as Madonna the concept: a woman who, for a generation, embodied female artistic, sexual, and financial liberation.

GUARDIAN In this exceptional biography, Pulitzer Prize finalist Mary Gabriel chronicles the meteoric rise and enduring influence of the greatest female pop icon of the modern era: Madonna.

With her arrival on the music scene in the early 1980s, Madonna generated nothing short of an explosion - as great as that of Elvis or the Beatles - taking the nation by storm with her liberated politics and breathtaking talent.

But Madonna was more than just a pop star. Everywhere, fans gravitated to her as an emblem of a new age, one in which feminism could shed the buttoned-down demeanour of the 1970s and feel relevant to a new generation.

A Rebel Life is a captivating and illuminating journey through Madonna's extraordinary life, from her humble beginnings as a trainee dancer to her meteoric rise to pop icon.

Gabriel's meticulous research and insightful analysis provide a deep understanding of Madonna's complex personality and her enduring impact on popular culture.

Weight: 1296g
Dimension: 163 x 241 x 60 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529332001