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| Author: Sheila Weller
Publisher: Atria
Category: Book
List Price: $27.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  118 reviews
Sales Rank: 2401
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 592
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 6.2 x 2
ISBN: 0743491475
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.421640922
EAN: 9780743491471
ASIN: 0743491475
Publication Date: April 8, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 The best book for baby boomers May 14, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
"Baby boomers please pay attention. Read this book!. It is so interesting, not only about these brilliant women, but its about music during the sixties and a lot of information and happenings around this time. Its like really did this happen. I loved it.
Outstanding book! May 13, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am a lifelong fan of Carly Simon's and thought I knew everything about her...I was wrong! I admired both Carole King and Joni Mitchell, but didn't know much about either of them. I learned so much, and enjoyed every minute of it! I have a newfound respect for all three of these artists, and a greater appreciation of what they were up against as women in their generation, forging careers in music. I don't know how the author found all the information and sources she did, but I'm sure glad that she did. Fascinating, must-read book for any fan of these women, and music in general.
It Brought me Back to My Youth! May 12, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Such a wonderful book! These ladies are my heroes! Tapestry was the first album I ever bought. This book brings me back to those early high school days! Great memories of a great decade!
Go back to the 60's and 70's May 12, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a most entertaining book - if you lived through this era it will bring memories flooding back, and if you are too young for this time, you'll wish that you'd been there. Because of the nature of the women of the book you will also meet James Taylor, Jerry Goffin, the Rolling Stones, and many other famous and notorious members of the music fraternity of the time. Well worth a read - I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Leah Jones, Queensland, Australia
Insight into a generation May 11, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this book needing a good airplane read...well, I got a whole lot more! This book is much more than a prurient look into the lives of three women song writers/singers--it is not prurient at all...but incredibly insightful about a generation in huge transition. I couldn't put it down...and yes, I did read it on the plane from the West Coast to the Gulf...and even better than being really engaging, interesting, well written, etc., it almost made air travel tolerable...well, almost. Occasionally I did get interrupted to be offered 11 g.d. pretzels! I recommend this to anyone who wants a penetrating look into a generation, a decade and a really interesting time.
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