Boys in the Trees: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (773 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1250095891 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller A People Magazine Top Ten Book of the Year!"Intelligent and captivating. Don't miss it." - People Magazine"One of the best celebrity memoirs of the year." -The Hollywood ReporterRock Star. Feminist Icon. Composer and Lyricist. Romantic entanglements with some of the most famous men of the day fueled her confessional lyrics, as well as the unraveling of her storybook marriage to James Taylor.. Simon, the co-founder of publishing giant Simon & Schuster, her musical debut as half of The Simon Sisters performing folk songs with her sister Lucy in Greenwich Village, to a meteoric solo career that would result in 13 top 40 hits, including the #1 song "You're So Vain." She was the first artist in history to win a Grammy Award, an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, for her song "Let the River Run" from the movie Working Girl. Survivor.Simon's memoir reveals her remarkable life, beginning with her storied childho
. Carly Simon lives on Martha's Vineyard
Kept me up all night!!!! This downloaded onto my Kindle at around midnight last night and I was awake until 5 or 6 reading it (I'm a little blurry right now but have the day off). First off, this is one of the best memoirs I've ever read in my life. I have been reading the headlines about it and they all seem to focus on sex, sex, sex. And sure, Carly Simon has had her affairs with various guys over the years, but I can't help but wonder if the memoir of a male music star would have those same headlines. I'm guessing the answer is not. What about her music? What about how her voice is the one you hear wherever you go in this world (last week I heard You Belong . William Faure said Elegant, touching, insightful, devastating and mesmerizing!. I have just finished Boys in the Trees and it is remarkable!!I was hooked from the very first paragraph. "This day may have been THE day, the very day when my identity was born. Before the incident occurred, I didn't think about who I was. After, I would spend the rest of my life testing myself to see if I had been right."Her writing style is elegant and eloquent.Ms Simon gracefully leads the reader through her life piecing together her self identity all the while keeping the reader riveted with an astonishing storytelling talent.Yes all the fun (and surprises!) of the famous relationships and names are here, framed with the songs and m. Heartfelt and honest I've been a big Carly Simon fan since the start of her career. Her persona was always bold and sexy, but this memoir shows the truth underneath, of intense vulnerability and anxiety. That she has been so successful is a great testament to surviving a lot of odds. I really wish she would write a sequel - her life and music after James Taylor has been interesting, too - this book's epilogue isn't enough. I sang a lot of her songs while reading it. By the way, Torch is still my favorite album of hers.
An Best Book of December 2015: In the trees is just about the only place in Carly Simon’s world that there aren’t boys, suggests this unputdownable memoir by the beloved singer and the first artist in history to win a Grammy Award, an Academy Award, and a Golden Globe Award for the same song ("Let the River Run" from the movie Working Girl). (And yes, she finally reveals who her song “You’re So Vain” refers to – sort of.) But it is the story of her marriage to fellow musician and Martha’s Vineyard resident James Taylor – whom she met first as a young teenager – that is the most resonant. – Sara Nelson. Some of this she got, of course, from performing, even though she famously suffers from crippling stage fright. Although the union lasted two decades, and pro