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Written by Sheila Weller - Audio book narrated by Susan Ericksen - Unabridged Fiction - 19 RETAIL EDITION COMPACT DISCS - 23.5 hours

Publisher, Tantor Media (April 2008)

NOTE: Tantor RETAIL COMPACT DISC EDITIONS are packaged in attractive, durable plastic albums with a ring binder and individual CD sleeves with full-color cover artwork.

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A Book Sense Pick

A New York Times Bestseller

A New York Times Editors' Choice

"There were five books by my bedside when Girls Like Us arrived, but this was the book I had to keep reading." ---Sara Davidson, bestselling author of Leap!

"An exhilarating look at three of the most creative talents of their era.... Wonderfully detailed." ---The Boston Globe

"A must-read...this bio will prove an absorbing, eye-opening tour of rock (and American) history." ---Publishers Weekly Starred Review

"A strong amalgam of nostalgia, feminist history, astute insight, beautiful music and irresistible gossip." ---The New York Times

"Juicy.... Girls Like Us is intriguing for both its revelations and the questions it leaves unresolved." ---USA Today

"Susan Ericksen reads like one of the girls, picking up from Weller's tone and sounding like a woman of the era.... Her performance is...very solid." ---Publishers Weekly Audio Review

Joni Mitchell, Carole King, and Carly Simon remain among the most enduring and important women in popular music. Each woman is distinct: King is the product of outer-borough, middle-class New York City; Mitchell is a granddaughter of Canadian farmers; and 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 generation known as "the sixties"---the female version---but in a bracingly specific and deeply recalled way, far from cliché. The history of the women of that generation had never been written---until now---and it is told through the resonant lives and emblematic songs of Mitchell, Simon, and King.

Filled with the voices of many dozens of these women's intimates, this alternating biography reads like a novel---except it's all true, and the heroines are famous and beloved. Sheila Weller captures the character of each woman and gives a balanced portrayal enriched by a wealth of new information.

Girls Like Us is an epic treatment of midcentury women who dared to break tradition and become what none had been before them---confessors in song, rock superstars, and adventurers of heart and soul.

About Sheila Weller: Sheila Weller is the senior contributing editor at Glamour, writes on social history for Vanity Fair, was a contributing editor at New York, and has written for Rolling Stone, the Village Voice, Redbook, Ms., and the New York Times Book Review. She is also the author of six books---two of which are New York Times bestsellers: Dancing at Ciro’s, a family memoir, and Marrying the Hangman, which is about the 1987 New York murder of Harpers assistant and fiction writer Diane Whitmore Pikul. Her 1995 account of the marriage of O. J. and Nicole Brown Simpson, Raging Heart, gave the case a major prosecution witness, was entered into the trial, and was at the top of the national news upon its publication. And her lauded Saint of Circumstance revealed five additional victims of "preppy rapist" Alex Kelly. For her magazine work, Weller is the winner of six New York Newswomen’s Club Front Page Awards. She also won a 2006 Exceptional Merit in Media Award from the National Women’s Political Caucus and a third place award from the National Association of Black Journalists for her reporting in Mississippi, for Glamour, on the fortieth anniversary of the Schwerner-Chaney-Goodman murders.

About Susan Ericksen: Susan Ericksen lives on the East Coast, where she performs on stage and on television. Susan has recorded many audiobooks, including Naked in Death by J. D. Robb and Savannah Blue by Mary Kay Andrews.