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Girls Like Us Sheila Weller

Girls Like Us par Sheila Weller

Girls Like Us Sheila Weller


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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. This title presents a portrayal of each woman. It also presents a portrait of the political and social scene of the 1960s.

Girls Like Us Résumé

Girls Like Us 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.

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'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

À propos de Sheila Weller

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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GOR001942120
9780091899240
0091899249
Girls Like Us Sheila Weller
Occasion - Très bon état
Relié
Ebury Publishing
20080403
592
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