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Sheila Weller
Dear Librarian, Ah, the '60s-music biography: Rock idol has lots of willing girlfriends and does lots of drugs—been there, read that, right? But his female counterpart had a riskier, much more textured journey: inching out of her '50s-girl straitjacket; laying her heart on the macho line, and writing a thoughtful record of it all: year by year and song by song. Author Peter Biskind calls my triple biography GIRLS LIKE US: CAROLE KING, JONI MITCHELL, CARLY SIMON—AND THE JOURNEY OF A GENERATION a "page turner that fills a gaping hole in the history of the counterculture." Historian Christine Stansell says it "beautifully captures the mammoth enterprise of making a new womanhood." Readers will really know these women, from their childhoods on up. Thank you for giving your library patrons a chance to learn the fabulous saga that's been hidden under that much more familiar rock story...and for keeping the printed word alive! In gratitude, Sheila Weller www.girlslikeusthebook.com
Girls Like Us / Sheila Weller / Atria / Hardcover; 544 Pages
Price: $27.95 / ISBN: 0-7434-9147-5 / Published: April, 2008 Sheila Weller is one of our featured authors this week. Click here to view her reader comments and feel free to use them in your newsletters. |