A book as astonishing as it is beautiful — a smoky, textured piece of time travel that provides a fictionalized glimpse of the Band recording its first album. Every rock fan will be obsessed with it.
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Niven's memoirs are crammed with anecdotes about the great and the good being great and/or appalling: Errol Flynn battling alcoholism and finding God; Cary Grant taking LSD and swimming in Niven's pool for hours. The most gossipy, charming, and immersive books about Hollywood ever.
No one has written about adolescence better than Townsend, a working-class single mother from Leicester whose debut became an instant classic. The story of a slightly maudlin, slightly pretentious boy racked with sexuality resembles James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, only incredibly funny and with less wanging on about God.
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In a world that still lacks realistic yet uplifting adolescent heroines, we will always have Anne Shirley. She gets her best friend drunk, cracks a slate over a hot boy's head, accidentally dyes her hair green, and falls off a shed roof. She's a deeply odd, deeply joyful girl who starts off alone in the world and gradually builds a happy life for herself.
A simple idea — a book that describes and tells the story behind every Beatles song — becomes irresistible in the hands of a master. My go-to book for 20 years. I even read it whilst in labor.
The true heir to David Niven's sweat-and-glitter memoirs, Everett's endlessly funny, endlessly frank account of going from rent boy to Hollywood star effectively torpedoed his career for the next decade, as Hollywood decided it could not deal with this much ravishingly bitchy truth. His observations on co-stars Sharon Stone and Madonna will never be bettered.
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