Touched by the Sun: My Friendship with Jackie
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The instant New York Times bestseller | Named one of the ten best books of 2019 by People magazine
A chance encounter at a summer party on Martha's Vineyard blossomed into an improbable but enduring friendship.
Carly Simon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis made an unlikely pair—Carly, a free and artistic spirit still reeling from her recent divorce, searching for meaning, new love, and an anchor; and Jackie, one of the most celebrated, meticulous, unknowable women in American history.
Nonetheless, over the next decade their lives merged in inextricable and complex ways, and they forged a connection deeper than either could ever have foreseen. The time they spent together—lingering lunches and creative collaborations, nights out on the town and movie dates—brought a welcome lightness and comfort to their days, but their conversations often veered into more profound territory as they helped each other navigate the shifting waters of life lived, publicly, in the wake of great love and great loss.
An intimate, vulnerable, and insightful portrait of the bond that grew between two iconic and starkly different American women, Carly Simon's Touched by the Sun is a chronicle, in loving detail, of the late friendship she and Jackie shared. It is a meditation on the ways someone can unexpectedly enter our lives and change its course, as well as a celebration of kinship in all its many forms.
"In Touched by the Sun, Simon reveals an easy-going, playful side of [Jackie] that most people never saw — sneaking a smoke during intermission at the opera, frolicking in the ocean off the Vineyard . . . The woman who would later edit several of Simon's children's books was 'just fun to be around.'" —Juliet Pennington, The Boston Globe
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Carly Simon. (2019). Touched by the Sun: My Friendship with Jackie. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Carly Simon. 2019. Touched By the Sun: My Friendship With Jackie. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Carly Simon, Touched By the Sun: My Friendship With Jackie. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
MLA Citation (style guide)Carly Simon. Touched By the Sun: My Friendship With Jackie. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
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The instant New York Times bestseller | Named one of the ten best books of 2019 by People magazine
A chance encounter at a summer party on Martha's Vineyard blossomed into an improbable but enduring friendship.
Carly Simon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis made an unlikely pair—Carly, a free and artistic spirit still reeling from her recent divorce, searching for meaning, new love, and an anchor; and Jackie, one of the most celebrated, meticulous, unknowable women in American history.
Nonetheless, over the next decade their lives merged in inextricable and complex ways, and they forged a connection deeper than either could ever have foreseen. The time they spent together—lingering lunches and creative collaborations, nights out on the town and movie dates—brought a welcome lightness and comfort to their days, but their conversations often veered into more profound territory as they helped each other navigate the shifting waters of life lived, publicly, in the wake of great love and great loss.
An intimate, vulnerable, and insightful portrait of the bond that grew between two iconic and starkly different American women, Carly Simon's Touched by the Sun is a chronicle, in loving detail, of the late friendship she and Jackie shared. It is a meditation on the ways someone can unexpectedly enter our lives and change its course, as well as a celebration of kinship in all its many forms.
"In Touched by the Sun, Simon reveals an easy-going, playful side of [Jackie] that most people never saw — sneaking a smoke during intermission at the opera, frolicking in the ocean off the Vineyard . . . The woman who would later edit several of Simon's children's books was 'just fun to be around.'" —Juliet Pennington, The Boston Globe- reviews
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A chronicle of a close friendship that might seem unlikely on the surface. Early on, Simon (Boys in the Trees, 2015) writes that "no one is more interested in famous people than other famous people," so perhaps the most avid readership for this thin memoir will be famous people who want to read about famous people writing about even more famous people. Simon and Jackie (no last name necessary) would seem to inhabit different circles of fame, but here they seem equally at home in each other's worlds. The author and her subject were neighbors on Martha's Vineyard, and they worked together during Jackie's publishing career on a series of children's books. Yet what really brought them together was the friendship each had with director Mike Nichols. "Almost every woman I met during the 1980s was besotted with him....I'm not exaggerating when I say that Mike was the preliminary conduit to Jackie's and my friendship," writes the author, as she dishes on just how much and how often Nichols would turn the tables and ask her about Jackie. Little wonder, then, that there was a coolness between the woman he married, Diane Sawyer, and the women who thought about marrying him--or settled for something less permanent. Jackie asked Simon to sing at her daughter's wedding, the two went out to the movies together (they avoided Oliver Stone's notorious JFK), and Jackie warned Simon about marrying her second husband, who turned out to be gay. The author suggests that some might find the two of them to be an odd couple and that she risks "ridicule or denouncement" in writing such a book. But there's a full-circle irony in how Jackie had long tried to persuade Simon to write a memoir; now she is the subject of her second. A behind-the-scenes glimpse at parties where the famous mingle with the famous.
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