EAN: 9780743491488

GIRLS LIKE US - SHEILA WELLER KARTONIERT (TB)

A groundbreaking and irresistible biography of three of America's most important musical
artists-Carole King  Joni Mitchell  and Carly Simon-charts their lives as women at a magical
moment in time.Carole King  Joni Mitchell  and Carly Simon remain among the most enduring and
important women in popular music. Each woman is distinct. Carole King is the product of
outer-borough  middle-class New York City  Joni Mitchell is a granddaughter of Canadian farmers
and Carly Simon is a child of the Manhattan intellectual upper crust. They collectively
represent  in their lives and their songs  a great swath of American girls who came of age in
the late 1960s. Their stories trace the arc of the now mythic sixties generation-female
version-but in a bracingly specific and deeply recalled way  far from cliché. The history of
the women of that generation has never been written-until now  through their resonant lives and
emblematic songs.Filled with the voices of many dozens ofthese women's intimates  who are
speaking in these pages for the first time  this alternating biography reads like a
novel-except it's all true  and the heroines are famous and beloved. Sheila Weller captures the
character of each woman and gives a balanced portrayal enriched by a wealth of new
information.Girls Like Us is an epic treatment of midcentury women who dared to break tradition
and become what none had been before them-confessors in song  rock superstars  and adventurers
of heart and soul.

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