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Girls like us, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon-- and the journey of a generation, Sheila Weller

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Girls like us

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Sheila Weller

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

A groundbreaking and irresistible biography of three of America's most important musical artists — Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon — charts their lives as women at a magical moment in time. Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon remain among the most enduring and important women in popular music. Each woman is distinct. Carole King is the product of outer-borough, middle-class New York City; Joni Mitchell is a granddaughter of Canadian farmers; and Carly 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 sixties generation — female version — but in a bracingly specific and deeply recalled way, far from clichâe. The history of the women of that generation has never been written — until now, through their resonant lives and..