As Ms. Lauper insists throughout her new self-named memoir, she hears voices:
“‘I’ve always heard voices. I’m a singer, and I hear poems in my head—that’s how I write.”
And the reader making his way through her recounting of her life story notices equally often that the experience of reading her words carries with it the sound of her voice. So completely idiosyncratic is her writing style that it is as if she were telling you the story herself. Aloud. In a voice like none other.
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