Sweet Life: Adventures on the Way to Paradise

Barry Manilow's memoir looks back over his years in show business. It offers stories from life on the road and a candid view of how the recording industry works out of public sight. The book traces his path from a childhood in Brooklyn to a career built on songwriting and performing, and it closes on his appearance at one of New York's best-known concert halls. Along the way it sketches the people, pressures and hard-won breaks that shaped him, giving readers both a portrait of a musician and a glimpse of the business around him.