Whoopi Goldberg Book By Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg Book
An Outrageous, Provocative, and Unapologetically Honest Collection of Personal Monologues
An Outrageous, Provocative, and Unapologetically Honest Collection of Personal Monologues
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: Whoopi Goldberg Book
- Author: Whoopi Goldberg
- Publisher: Little, Brown & Company, New York / Boston
- Publication Date: 1998
- ISBN-10: 0316645702
- ISBN-13: 9780316645706
- Edition Details: First UK/International Hardcover Release.
- Binding: Original publisher's premium cloth boards, featuring sharp spine typography and heavy paper endpapers.
- Physical Format: Octavo (8vo), 256 pages. Printed on cream archival-grade stock.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Near Fine (NF) / Mint
- Exterior / Boards: The original publisher's cloth casing is in immaculate, structurally flawless condition. The corners are perfectly sharp and square, and the surface feels completely fresh. The spine is pristine, undamaged, uncreased, and firmly anchored to the text block.
- Interior: The pages are beautifully clean, completely intact, crisp, and bright. The text block is robust and free from internal underlining, text highlighting, dog-ears, or owner names.
- Preservation: This copy has been exceptionally well maintained and looked after, housed securely beneath a protective, archival-grade removable Cellophane cover to shield it from ambient wear.
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The Dust Jacket: Near Fine (NF)
- Condition: The original unclipped pictorial dust jacket is extremely bright and crisp. It exhibits only very limited, microscopic signs of edge friction along the extremities, preserving its striking, high-impact aesthetic value perfectly beneath the clear Cellophane wrapper.
Synopsis & Historical Value
Rejecting the standard conventions of chronological celebrity memoirs, Whoopi Goldberg Book is an audacious, uncompromisingly honest literary performance by the iconic entertainer Whoopi Goldberg. Delivering her perspective "straight" and unfiltered, Whoopi structures the volume around twenty-five sharp, stand-alone thematic monologues covering universal topics like Fate, Trust, Home, Race, Choice, and Death.
Written with the signature sass, intellectual sharpness, and provocative edge that defined her stand-up comedy, she uses these chapters to dissect social conventions, Hollywood systems, and deeply intimate personal revelations. From exposing the humorous bodily origin behind her famous stage name under the chapter titled "Wind," to delivering candid assessments of modern relationships, this work stands as a definitive, highly collectible document of 1990s pop-culture critique from one of the century's most unique comic minds.
Author Profile: Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson) is a legendary American actress, comedian, author, and television pioneer. She is one of an elite handful of entertainers to achieve the coveted EGOT status, having won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award. From her ground-breaking Broadway monologue production The Spook Show to her Academy Award-nominated turn in The Color Purple (1985) and her Oscar-winning performance in Ghost (1990), Goldberg has shattered cultural barriers across multiple generations. Beyond her decades of major cinematic work and her long-standing role as moderator of The View, she is an accomplished author celebrated for her uncompromisingly bold and authentic voice.
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