I first read this book as a teenage having picked it up from the church library. (I'm sure someone probably purchased that book based entirely on the title).
The best autobiography I've ever read!.
HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW PAPER BACK BOOK ARRIVED VERY QUICKLY AND WAS IN EXCELLENT SHAPE. I HAD READ THIS BOOK YEARS AGO AND JUST WANTED IT TO PASS ON FOR MY DAUGHTER TO READ.
I love all things about Ethel Waters. This book was very interesting.
This book was excellent, unedited, and trully representative of the life of Entertainer Ethel Waters. I would highly recommend this book for anyone who is interested in reallying knowing Ethel Waters.
Extremely good book. Read it in small paperback about 30 years ago, and I was pleased to see that is still regarded as marketablr enough to have been rewritten in this high quality paperback.
Anyone who grew up in the 60's-70's should read this book ... it is very inspiring!.
Whew, what an upbringing, what a life. Waters goes into great detail about her rearing in the slums of Philadelphia, her life as vaudevillian Sweet Mama Stringbean and finally the Ethel Waters of stage, screen, and records.
One need not be African-American to love this book. It is a deep insight into a tough time.
I once had a non religious friend ask how could the poor live in such squalor, and yet be "religious". We live on a cultural divide, where we live upright and logical lives, and don't see the squalor around us and dismiss such families as "dysfunctional".
Ethel Waters had a life that is almost too unbelievable to be real. Reading her autobiography now, over 60 years after it was published, one wonders how much of it is really true.
Absolutely fabulous book detailing the life of a young African American woman born and raised in poverty who makes her way to the big time using her beautiful voice! The name-dropping can be quite laborious at times but I believe Ethel included this so as to extend recognition to her fellow Black performers of the time.
This autobiography is devastating. Ethel Waters tells the story of her childhood in the slums with the bluntly objective eye of a James Ellroy.
I have been a fan of Ethel Waters' since I saw her in the movies Pinky , and A Member of The Wedding (one of my all-time fave movies also with Julie Harris and Brandon DeWilde).
I didn't care for the writing style of this book, it seemed like she was mostly listing dates, names, and places of people she performed with.
