Imagine This: Growing Up with My Brother, John Lennon

by Julia Baird and Julia Baird

Book Overview

Until now, the true story of John Lennon's childhood has never been told. John's sister Julia has herself been on a personal journey that has made it possible only now to reveal the full extent of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0340839252
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.7" x 0.9" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

wonderful,heartbreaking story

This book will make you laugh and cry.So much has been written about John Lennon's life before he was a Beatle and it is great to know this book tells the whole truth,good or bad.The joy shines through and you really can feel the love Julia Baird has for her late brother and you can feel the pain,sadness,and anger she has for the lose of their mother and the lose of John.

An unusual perspective

I found Julia Baird's book on her half-brother, John Lennon, well-written and very enjoyable. I've read dozens of books on John and the Beatles, and hers provided a unique perspective which definitely humanized this "icon" in a way few others have. These days it is hard to find anything but the highly-sanitized, Yoko-centric version of John, but this look into his childhood, adolescence and later years has a ring of truth to it. He lived more than half of his life before Yoko, and this book reminds us of that.