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Girls like us

Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon--and the journey of a generation

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An edition of Girls like us (2008)

Girls like us

Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon--and the journey of a generation

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"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.

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Atria Books
Language
English
Pages
584

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Table of Contents

pt. 1.
"We can only look behind from where we came" --
Overture : Three women, three moments, one journey -- -- pt. 2.
"I'm home again, in my old narrow bed" -- -- ch. 1.
Carole -- -- ch. 2.
Joni -- -- ch. 3.
Carly -- -- pt. 3.
"And the sun poured in like butterscotch" -- -- ch. 4.
Carole : 1961-1964 -- -- ch. 5.
Joni : 1961-early 1965 -- -- ch. 6.
Carly : 1961-late 1965 -- -- ch. 7.
Carole : 1964-early 1969 -- -- ch. 8.
Joni : March 1965-December 1967 -- -- ch. 9.
Carly : 1965-1969 -- -- pt. 4.
"I feel the earth move under my feet" -- -- ch. 10.
Joni : late 1967-mid-1970 -- -- ch. 11.
Carole : 1969-1970 / Joni : 1970 / Carole and Joni : early 1971-1972 -- -- ch. 12.
Carly : mid-1970-early 1973 -- -- pt. 5.
"We just come from such different sets of circumstance" -- -- ch. 13.
Carole : 1972-1984 -- -- ch. 14.
Joni : 1972-1984 -- -- ch. 14.
Joni : 1972-1982 -- -- ch. 15.
Carly : late 1973-late 1987 -- -- pt. 6.
"In the river I know I will find the key" --
Coda : The middle '80s to the present : three women, three endings, one journey --
Source notes --
Acknowledgments --
Bibliography --
Discography --
Index.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 545-559), and discography (p. 561-564), and index.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
782.42164092/2, B
Library of Congress
ML400 .W35 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
vi, 584 p. :
Number of pages
584

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24965929M
Internet Archive
girlslikeuscarol00well
ISBN 10
0743491475
ISBN 13
9780743491471
LCCN
2007043445
OCLC/WorldCat
166373130

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