I Dream of Joni: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell in 53 Snapshots
Contributor(s): Alford, Henry (Author)
Publisher: Gallery BooksISBN: 1668019507
Physical Info: 1.4" H x 9.1" L x 6.4" W (1.1 lbs) 352 pages
"I came for Henry and stayed for Joni. Which is to say, one can have almost no interest at all in Joni Mitchell (and I'm ashamed to say I was one of those cultural lunks) and enjoy the crap out of this book -- the gorgeous turn of words, the humor, the tireless pursuit of delicious detail. Alford, long a favorite of mine, captures the artist in all her zesty contradictions. He doesn't seek to resolve them, to draft some overarching theory of Joni, but rather to simply -- as he puts it -- 'spill them out on a tabletop and watch them sparkle.' That they do."
-Mary Roach, New York Times bestselling author of Stiff and Fuzz
"Henry Alford gathered everything there is to know about Joni Mitchell and then distilled it all into the most fascinating, entertaining, and significant stories. Like its subject, I Dream of Joni is artful and inventive. Alford leaps from decade to decade, backwards and forwards, making the reader a (happy) captive on a carousel of time. The result is exactly what a genius like Joni Mitchell deserves--a biography that feels unfettered and alive."
-- Nell Scovell, author of Just the Funny Parts
"Having read Henry Alford's dreamy meditations and investigations into Joni Mitchell, I realize that all those hundreds of hours lying prone on my green shag carpet listening to Court and Spark in high school did not make me the Mitchellologist I thought I was. I am so glad Henry Alford filled in many of her mysteries. He even went to Saskatchewan; God's work."
--Lisa Birnbach, New York Times bestselling author of The Official Preppy Handbook and True Prep
"The greatest Joni Mitchell book ever! Witty, gossipy, smart, it hits the perfect notes of understanding and respect for the music."
--Francine Prose, New York Times bestselling author of Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 and Anne Frank
"This stylish consideration of the folk-rock-jazz legend by magazine veteran Alford is...thoughtful and informed.... [A] heartfelt reconsideration of an iconic artist."
-- Kirkus
"Alford's smart prose will captivate readers and leave music fans with thoughtful questions about Mitchell and her musical influence."
--Library Journal
"Revealing anecdotes, sly asides, and piercing insights, along with devastating quotes from the icon herself...[Alford's] witty way into the material makes it all feel bracingly new."
--The Independent
"Witty and comprehensive...Mitchell's life, psyche and evolving legacy are explored here in vivid technicolor...with the author's trademark wit and verve."
--Book Reporter
Publisher Marketing:
The eternal singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is seen anew, portrayed through a witty and comprehensive exploration of anecdotes, quotes, and lyrics by Henry Alford, "the most graceful of humorists" (Vanity Fair) and a writer for The New Yorker.
Joni Mitchell's life, psyche, and evolving legacy are explored here in vivid technicolor--from her childhood in Saskatoon, Canada, to her arrival in Laurel Canyon that turned her into, as Alford puts it, "the bard of heartbreak and longing." Each period of Mitchell's life is observed via the artists, friends, family, and lovers she encountered along the way, including James Taylor, Leonard Cohen, Georgia O'Keefe, Prince, and, most significantly, Kilauren, the daughter Mitchell gave up for adoption at birth but then reconnected with decades later.
Presented in the impressionistic vein of Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret, I Dream of Joni explores in fifty-three essays, with the author's trademark wit and verve, the life of the legendary singer-songwriter.
I Dream of Joni: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell in 53 Snapshots
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