Girls Like Us by Sheila Weller
Carly Simon, Carole King and Joni Mitchell remain among the most enduring and important women in popular music. Together they changed a decade and altered the lives of a generation. Carole King is the product of New York City's lower-middle-class; Joni Mitchell is a grand-daughter of farmers; and, Carly Simon is a child of the Manhattan intellectual upper-crust. They collectively represent, in their lives and their songs, every girl who came of age in the late 1960s, when - to paraphrase one of their songs - the earth moved. Their stories trace the arc of the now-mythic era known a 'the Sixties'."Girls Like Us" is an epic treatment of these three exceptional women who dared to break tradition and become what few had been before them - confessors in song, rock superstars, adventurers of heart and soul. Yet it is also an evocative and utterly engrossing portrait of this explosive period; a time of ferment and discord, of upheaval and radically changing values. Award-winning journalist and bestselling author, Sheila Weller presents a full and balanced portrayal of each woman, enriched by vivid anecdotes told by dozens of their intimates, many speaking for the first time. Meticulously researched and superbly written, "Girls Like Us" is as much a portrait of a political and social scene as it is a compelling biography of three much-loved musicians.
" 'A carousel ride of a memoir, complete with ups and downs, prize brass rings and grim silence, when the music stops.. But as interesting as anecdotes of stars and wheeler-dealers can be, and as evocative as the book is of an era of cigarette girls, the real story occurs within the family... The last pages are shattering... a heartbreaking account of a badly broken family.' - New York Times Book Review 'Weller manages to turn a family chronicle of winsome glamour and almost Shakespearean tragedy into a scorching intellectual exercise... Dancing at Ciro's bursts the bounds of the Hollwood memoir genre... This chronicle of glamour, rage, sorry and hostory... At once deeply indiosyncratic and reasonably universal, Dancing at Ciro's is a very important, very disturbing book.' - Washington Post"
Sheila Weller is a bestselling author and award-winning magazine journalist. She is the author of seven books, two of them New York Times bestsellers. Senior contributing editor at Glamour, contributor to Vanity Fair, and former contributing editor of New York, Sheila Weller is a six-time winner of the Newswomen's Club of New York Front Page award. She lives in New York City. www.girlslikeusthebook.com
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| ISBN 13 | 9780091899240 |
| ISBN 10 | 0091899249 |
| Title | Girls Like Us |
| Author | Sheila Weller |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Ebury Publishing |
| Year published | 2008-04-03 |
| Number of pages | 592 |
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