Boys in the trees : a memoir / Carly Simon.
Publication details: London : Constable, 2015.Description: viii, 376 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781472124012 (hardback)
- 9781472124036 (paperback)
- 1472124030 (pbk.)
- 782.42164092 B 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 782.421 SIM | Available | 064805 |
First published in the USA in 2015 by Flatiron Books.
Machine generated contents note: BOOK ONE -- 1.133 West Eleventh Street -- 2.Summer in the Trees -- 3.Frunzhoffa -- 4.Carly, Meet Ronny -- 5.Splinter-Happy Steps -- 6.The Dinner Party -- 7.Moonglow -- 8.The Twenty-Ninth Floor -- 9.The Hardships of the Mistral -- 10.Frog Footman -- 11.Moneypenny -- 12.Jake Was the Hub -- 13.Record Numero Uno -- 14.Soft Summer Gardens -- 15.The Potemkin Hotel -- 16.Carnegie Hall -- 17.Choppin' Wood -- 18.Moonlight Mile -- 19.We'll Marry -- 20.Emulsification -- 21.Heat's Up, Tea's Brewed -- 22.Showdown -- 23.Sheets the Color of Fire -- 24.Strip, Bitch.
Carly Simon is a household name. She was the staple of the '70s and '80s Billboard charts and was famously married to James Taylor w ith whom she has two children. She has had a career that has spanned four decades, resulting in thirteen top 40 hits, including the Number 1 song 'You're So Vain', numerous Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe and an Academy Award. She was the first artist in history tow in a Grammy Award, an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for her song 'Let the River Run' (from the film Working Girl)...Boys in the Trees is a rhapsodic, beautifully composed memoir of a young woman's coming of age amongst the glamorous literati and intelligentsia of Manhattan (her father was Richard Simon, co-founder of publishing giant Simon & Schuster), a reflection on a life begun amidst secrets and shame, and a powerful story of the strength to leave that all behind and forge a path of art, music and love in the Golden Age of folk and rock. At once an insider's look into a life in the spotlight, a lyric reflection on a particular time in our culture's history, and a beautiful memoir about the pains and joys of love and art, Boys in the Trees is the story Carly Simon has long been waiting to tell the world.