Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon: And the Journey of a Generation

Title: Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon: And the Journey of a Generation Author: Sheila Weller ISBN: 9780743491471 Publisher: Atria Books Published: 2008 Binding: Book Language: English Publisher Description: 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 myth