Girls Like Us by Sheila Weller audiobook

Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon---and the Journey of a Generation

By Sheila Weller
Read by Susan Ericksen

Tantor Audio 9780743491471

Unabridged

Format : Retail CD (In Stock)
  • $69.99

    ISBN: 9798200137114

  • $59.95

    ISBN: 9798200137121

Runtime: 22.89 Hours
Category: Nonfiction/Biography & Autobiography
Audience: Adult
Language: English

Summary

Summary

A New York Times bestseller

A People Pick of the Week

Joni Mitchell, Carole King, and Carly Simon remain among the most enduring and important women in popular music. Each woman is distinct: King is the product of outer-borough, middle-class New York City; Mitchell is a granddaughter of Canadian farmers; and 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 generation known as "the sixties"—the female version—but in a bracingly specific and deeply recalled way, far from cliché. The history of the women of that generation had never been written—until now—and it is told through the resonant lives and emblematic songs of Mitchell, Simon, and King.

Filled with the voices of many dozens of these women's intimates, 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.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Both scholarly and dishy. A superb journalist, Weller has managed to uncover a trove of unreported facts on her subjects.” People (4 stars)
“This is a fabulous book…Girls like Us unfolds with drama and panoramic detail.” Sunday Times (London)
“A page-turner of the first order….a must read.” Boston Globe
“Nostalgia, feminist history, astute insight, beautiful music, and irresistible gossip about the common factors in the three women’s lives.” New York Times
“Any woman who grew up during the late 1960s and ‘70s will fall head over heels for Sheila Weller’s Girls Like Us." Ladies Home Journal
“Conveys a visceral sense of not only them but also their tumultuous generation.” Barnes&Noble.com
“This absorbing, well-reported book chronicles a time when women in all walks of life were exercising new-found freedom. And as icons of that era, nobody did it better.” Christian Science Monitor

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Author Bio: Sheila Weller

Author Bio: Sheila Weller

Sheila Weller is the author of several acclaimed works of nonfiction, including the life of Carrie Fisher, a family memoir Dancing at Ciro’s, the New York Times bestseller Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon—and the Journey of a Generation; and The News Sorority: Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Christiane Amanpour—and the Triumph of Women in TV News. Her investigative, human interest, and cultural history journalism has won her multiple major magazine awards, including six New York Newswomen's Club Front Page Awards. She also won a 2006 Exceptional Merit in Media Award from the National Women's Political Caucus and a third place award from the National Association of Black Journalists for her reporting in Mississippi, for Glamour, on the fortieth anniversary of the Schwerner-Chaney-Goodman murders.

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Available Formats : Retail CD, MP3 CD
Category: Nonfiction/Biography & Autobiography
Runtime: 22.89
Audience: Adult
Language: English