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Dandelion: Memoir of a Free Spirit by James, Catherine
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- Objectstaat
- Redelijk
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 0312367813
- Book Title
- Dandelion : Memoir of a Free Spirit
- Item Length
- 9.1in
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Fiction
- Topic
- Rich & Famous, Family Life, Personal Memoirs, Coming of Age
- Item Width
- 6.7in
- Item Weight
- 3.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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Catherine James' relationship with her young, beautiful and wickedly irresponsible mother informed her Los Angeles childhood-neglected enough that she was strapped to a chair at night while her mother cavorted on the Sunset Strip, Catherine longed not for normalcy, but just for the chance to get away. To get away to her beloved grandmother Mimi, or to her Aunt Claire's, a Hollywood version of Grey Gardens stuffed with racks of the former beauty queen's 1930's ball gowns and memories of grand parties with Claire's ex-husband Busby Berkeley. To get away to her father, a dashing race car driver who had been out of her life almost since the day she was born. To even get away to school, where she would at least be taken care of. Instead, Catherine was finally abandoned by her furious mother to become a ward of the state before she reached her teens. It wasn't until a chance meeting with a very young Bob Dylan inspired Catherine to make her escape-as a real runaway, breaking out of the California orphanage with only one goal: to get to Greenwich Village. DANDELION then becomes a look through the eye of a needle, as Catherine experiments with Eric Clapton; a peek through the viewfinder of a Polaroid, as Catherine is taken up by the beautiful people in Andy Warhol's Factory; and a glimpse through a haze of smoke, as she begins romances with rockers Jackson Browne and Jimmy Page. While raising her son, whose father was Denny Laine of the Moody Blues, Catherine finally returns to her west coast roots, reconnects with her family and discovers that her mother hasn't changed but her father has: he's become a heartbreakingly garish transsexual. Moving and shocking by turns, DANDELION is a completely different view of a celebrated pop culture scene, and a dramatic mother-daughter relationship.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN-10
0312367813
ISBN-13
9780312367817
eBay Product ID (ePID)
59775632
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dandelion : Memoir of a Free Spirit
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Rich & Famous, Family Life, Personal Memoirs, Coming of Age
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Fiction
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.1in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6.7in
Item Weight
3.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3610
Reviews
"Abused child and lover of many a rock star puts her life down on paper.James first hit the music scene in the 1960s, when the Gods of Rock still blazed paths of wanton devastation across America before retiring to their well-appointed British castles for heroin and philosophy. She came from a Southern California kind of nowhere, raised by a speed-freak mother of uncommon brutality and a mostly absent, alcoholic father who later became the world's ugliest transsexual (we learn this in a shocking flash-forward that opens the book). Sent to an orphanage at age 12, James managed to get out one weekend and make friends with 22-year-old Bob Dylan, who was playing a gig in Santa Monica. In 1964, still only 14 years old, she lit out for Greenwich Village. Being someone who makes things happen, she remade herself into a fabulous It girl, landing a screen test with Andy Warhol and partying with rock stars. Two years later, involved in a romance with the Moody Blues' Denny Laine, she forged papers to get a passport and joined him in London, where she bore his child. More harrowing abuse, a whirlwind romance with Mick Jagger, infatuation with Jimmy Page and plenty of Performance-like decadence followed. Her later years were calmer, as she concentrated on raising son Damian Christian and finding odd employment as a model, a movie scenery painter and a stand-in for Diane Keaton, but she still found time to fall hard for Jackson Browne. James is no prose stylist, but she cuts to the quick with an admirable economy, treating the mundane passages of her life with the same sanguinity as the ones littered with the rich and famous. There's plenty of pain here, but little wallowing.The rare celebrity-crammed memoir that would be worth reading even without the bold-faced names."--Kirkus Reviews "Cameos certainly hold the reader's attention, but so do the author's resourcefulness and strength of character...straightforward, conversational read."---Library Journal, "Abused child and lover of many a rock star puts her life down on paper.James first hit the music scene in the 1960s, when the Gods of Rock still blazed paths of wanton devastation across America before retiring to their well-appointed British castles for heroin and philosophy. She came from a Southern California kind of nowhere, raised by a speed-freak mother of uncommon brutality and a mostly absent, alcoholic father who later became the world's ugliest transsexual (we learn this in a shocking flash-forward that opens the book). Sent to an orphanage at age 12, James managed to get out one weekend and make friends with 22-year-old Bob Dylan, who was playing a gig in Santa Monica. In 1964, still only 14 years old, she lit out for Greenwich Village. Being someone who makes things happen, she remade herself into a fabulous It girl, landing a screen test with Andy Warhol and partying with rock stars. Two years later, involved in a romance with the Moody Blues' Denny Laine, she forged papers to get a passport and joined him in London, where she bore his child. More harrowing abuse, a whirlwind romance with Mick Jagger, infatuation with Jimmy Page and plenty of Performance -like decadence followed. Her later years were calmer, as she concentrated on raising son Damian Christian and finding odd employment as a model, a movie scenery painter and a stand-in for Diane Keaton, but she still found time to fall hard for Jackson Browne. James is no prose stylist, but she cuts to the quick with an admirable economy, treating the mundane passages of her life with the same sanguinity as the ones littered with the rich and famous. There's plenty of pain here, but little wallowing.The rare celebrity-crammed memoir that would be worth reading even without the bold-faced names."-- Kirkus Reviews "Cameos certainly hold the reader's attention, but so do the author's resourcefulness and strength of character...straightforward, conversational read."--- Library Journal
Copyright Date
2007
Lccn
2007-020318
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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