The Beauty of Living Twice

De: Sharon Stone

Narrado por: Sharon Stone

New York Times Best Seller

Sharon Stone tells her own story: a journey of healing, love, and purpose.

“Not your typical Hollywood autobiography. Brutally honest, restless and questing.” (O, The Oprah Magazine)

Sharon Stone, one of the most renowned actresses in the world, suffered a massive stroke that cost her not only her health, but her career, family, fortune, and global fame. In The Beauty of Living Twice, Stone chronicles her efforts to rebuild her life and writes about her slow road back to wholeness and health. In a business that doesn’t accept failure, in a world where too many voices are silenced, Stone found the power to return, the courage to speak up, and the will to make a difference in the lives of men, women, and children around the globe.

Over the course of these intimate pages, as candid as a personal conversation, Stone talks about her pivotal roles, her life-changing friendships, her worst disappointments, and her greatest accomplishments. She reveals how she went from a childhood of trauma and violence to a career in an industry that in many ways echoed those same assaults, under cover of money and glamour. She describes the strength and meaning she found in her children, and in her humanitarian efforts. And ultimately, she shares how she fought her way back to find not only her truth, but her family’s reconciliation and love.

Stone made headlines not just for her beauty and her talent, but for her candor and her refusal to “play nice,” and it’s those same qualities that make this memoir so powerful. The Beauty of Living Twice is a book for the wounded and a book for the survivors; it’s a celebration of women’s strength and resilience, a reckoning, and a call to activism. It is proof that it’s never too late to raise your voice and speak out.

©2021 Sharon Stone (P)2021 Random House Audio

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One of Vogue’s Best Books to Read in 2021

One of O Magazine’s 20 Best Books to Pick Up This March

One of Fortune’s 11 New Books to Read in March

One of CNN’s 20 Most Anticipated New Books to Read This March

One of Town & Country’s 42 Must-Read Books of Spring 2021

One of Marie Claire’s 25 Best 2021 Memoirs to Pre-Order Now

“A candid, heartfelt, poignant memoir, written with grace and humor.” (Harlan Coben, best-selling author of The Boy From the Woods)

“In this courageous, daring and tender-hearted memoir, Sharon Stone interrogates her own trauma and a myriad of losses and discovers the gift of clear seeing. The Beauty of Living Twice is so much more than a celebrity tell-all. It is an act of reckoning, contrition, and above all, love.” (Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance)

“Elegantly written with her wicked sense of humor on full display, the memoir is catnip for fans who have never managed to crack the exterior of the elusive star.” (Vogue)

Brilliant, beautiful, devastating, brave

This is a must read. Sharon Stone reaches right into the heart of love, grief, and trauma and embodies the transcendence of forgiveness. She is fearless as she shares her truth. And this has provided another stepping stone to healing for this reader.

Years of Living Dangerously

After hearing Sharon Stone recently interviewed by Oprah for 'Super Soul Sunday', I uploaded her new book. On a road trip last weekend, I popped in this Audible for the journey. I love the intimacy of memoir and Sharon's bravely revealing book packed a wallop. I recently sent out a newsletter for my business where sometimes I discuss any current Audible books I am loving. Here's what I wrote:

"The Beauty of Living Twice" is quite extraordinary. Although I was a casting director for many years, I didn't really know her back story other than she was a devotee of the famous acting teacher, Roy London. She was a working-class girl with Irish roots living outside of Amish country in Pennsylvania. Her honest exploration of her family's long-held secrets gives you a new perspective into this woman's not-so-idyllic life.

Apart from her known beauty as a mega-wattage model & super-star, she is a down-to-earth, bright, strong, resilient, articulate, hard-working feminist – as well as a mother of three adopted boys – who is now standing up and speaking out on incest and abuse from her family lineage. She grew up thinking her mother didn't love her - and came to find out that wasn't true. Her mom was guarding long-held secrets. She got married at 16 to escape an unspoken life. She tried to instill a cold work ethic of self-sufficiency and integrity for her daughter's to survive. Sharon just didn't know why.

She generously shares lessons learned from healing her own near-death experience – recovering from a brain aneurysm in 2000 - a humbling experience with 1% survival odds. She has definitely used her practice of Buddhism, as well as her basic instincts to heal, to survive the misogyny of the Hollywood system, and to fully appreciate her journey in life, in love, her mom, her family, and her foray into adoption as a single mom– as well as do what she can to help heal the suffering of so many broken souls on the planet suffering with HIV/Aids, homelessness, incest and human sex trafficking – as well as other causes that matter to her. She is the real deal.

Hit by A Stone

An honest, sometimes gut wrenching memoir, as told by Stone herself. Sharon stone bears all, from her childhood traumas, to the perils of being a beautiful woman in a male dominated industry. I always liked Sharon Stone, but damn she literally and figuratively lays it all out in the open. Not many people can do that, and I applaud her. Note - this is not a happy glamour celebrity tale and deals with some very serious issues.

Truly honest !

Totally have enjoyed this book. A true hero for being honest and open about everything!

Excellent Story and adventure of life

I was a little shocked that Sharon did not elaborate on her out of body experience when she died and all that she saw and experienced. I am happy that Sharon got to adopt three sons and be a mother. I enjoyed learning about her family and friends. Aids seemed to be an underlining passion of hers. I like that she helped the homeless. I could definitely tell that Sharon is a leftist democrat with hate toward republicans, I am a republican, I do not agree with all of Sharon's choices in life or the movie industry, but I LOVE Sharon. My favorite movie, I only JUST discovered called Tears in the Rain; it is a gem of a movie. I went back in time, to watch all of Sharon's movie from the beginning of her career. She was so gorgeous and has a youthful look in the Movie Deadly Blessing; she was so beautiful. A star in the waiting. I believe the first time that I ever saw Sharon was in the movie Irreconcilable Differences; I grew up watching Shelley Long (my fav actress). I feel in love with Sharon immediately. I was a fan every since, but I do not watch all of Sharon's movie or like them. Basic Instinct is a different movie, which I liked Sharon's acting abilities but I do not watch anymore. I try to see Sharon's movies, and there are a lot that I have never seen. Out of all of her work, I love Tears in the Rain the best. I love Total Recall; that is another favorite that I like. I listened to her book in one sitting, I loved the emotion that Sharon had in her voice.

Courage and Beauty

Wow! Loved every moment of this book, and I learned so much. I used to think Sharon Stone was just another wealthy actress, ,no one to whom I could really relate. I found much in her experience that I, too, had seen and felt: sex object, single mother, truth seeker, unaware daughter, hard and unappreciated worker, and many more. Thank you, Sharon, for your honesty, courage, and love.

Wonderful

I have always been a fan of Sharon Stone, but this open and honest look into her life, struggles and success was more than I had expected. She's full of grace, kindness, experience and a good heart. I'm very happy I chose this book and have already recommended it to family and friends.

Deepest truth

Thank you for sharing, iI will treasure this book of your life, much respect

Crying or Trying

It seemed as if Ms. Stone would begin to cry at the beginning of her childhood and adult anecdotes and recover with the sentence ending period. I don't doubt that tears came previously from sadness, pain and grief. It seemed like she was trying to relive those moments for emphasis. The middle section of her story was slow listening for me. Overall I enjoyed the reading of and the messages within her story with those two exceptions. She has lived and is living an exceptional life.

Courageous heart

To listen to the ebb and flow of Sharon’s journey with the emotive echo of the experience is to journey with her, in solidarity & in grace. Courage, tenacity, and pure grit are woven through her narrative & emblazoned on us all is the transmission she brings of choosing love. Timely & true is the resonance I feel having shared the space with her raspy voice tempered with a humor outrageous in its alacrity. Listening at times with tears and with tingles of recognition. Thank you for baring your heart & allowing each of us to cheer you on in this dance of life.