Poker Face

✍ Scribed by Callahan, Maureen

• Book ID: 106918012
• Publisher: Hyperion
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 3 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781401396183

✦ Synopsis

"Stop feeding me bullshit. Tell me the truth."

—Lady Gaga, 2009

"I hate the truth. I hate the truth so much I prefer a giant dose of bullshit any day over the truth."

—Lady Gaga, 2010

In little over a year, Stefani Germanotta, a struggling performer in New York's Lower East Side burlesque scene, has become the global demographic-smashing pop icon known as Lady Gaga. She is a once-in-a-decade artist, a gifted singer, composer, designer, and performance artist who mixes high and low culture, the avant-garde with the accessible, authenticity with artifice.

Who is Lady Gaga? She is a twenty-four-year-old woman whose stage mantra—"I'm a free bitch!"—is the polar opposite of who she is offstage: isolated, insecure, and unable to be alone. She is an outr? artist who wanted to be a sensitive singer-songwriter, whose musical heroes include Britney Spears, Billy Joel, and Bruce Springsteen. She is a woman who says no man can ever compete with her career...