Girls like us : Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon--and the journey of a generation
(2008)
By:
Weller, Sheila
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/WELLER,S
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York London : Atria Books, [2008]
©2008
©2008
DESCRIPTION
vi, 584 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780743491471, 0743491475
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"We can only look behind from where we came" -- "I'm home again, in my old narrow bed" -- "And the sun poured in like butterscotch" -- "I feel the earth move under my feet" -- "We just come from such different sets of circumstance" -- "In the river I know I will find the key"
"Girls Like Us" is a groundbreaking and irresistible biography of three of America's most important musical artists--Carly Simon, Carole King, and Joni Mitchell--and offers an epic treatment of these mid-century women who dared to break tradition