LIFE WITH MY SISTER MADONNA

CHRISTOPHER CICCONE'S EXTRAORDINARY MEMOIR IS BASED ON HIS FORTY-SEVEN YEARS OF GROWING UP WITH, WORKING WITH AND UNDERSTANDING THE MOST FAMOUS WOMAN OF OUR TIME WHO HAS INTRIGUED, SCANDALIZED AND ENTERTAINED MILLIONS FOR HALF A CENTURY. THROUGH MOST OF THE ICONIC STAR'S KALEIDOSCOPIC CAREER, CHRISTOPHER PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN HER LIFE AS HER BACK-UP DANCER, HER PERSONAL ASSISTANT, HER DRESSER, HER DECORATOR, HER ART DIRECTOR, HER TOUR DIRECTOR. IF YOU THINK YOU KNEW EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT MADONNA, YOUR ARE WRONG. ONLY CHRISTOPHER CAN TELL THE FULL-SCALE, RIVETING UNTOLD STORY BEHIND MADONNA'S CAREFULLY CONSTRUCTED MYTHOLOGY, AND THE REAL WOMAN BEHIND THE GLITTERING FACADE. FROM THEIR SHARED MICHIGAN CHILDHOOD, WHICH MADONNA TRANSCENDED, THEN WHISKED CHRISTOPHER TO MANHATTAN WITH HER IN THE EARLY EIGHTIES, WHERE HE SLEPT ON HER ROACH-INFESTED FLOOR AND DANCED WITH HER IN CLUBS ALL OVER TOWN - CHRISTOPHER WAS WITH HER EVERY STEP OF THE WAY, EXPERIENCING HER FIRST-HAND I