Dandelion: Memoir of a Free Spirit

Dandelion: Memoir of a Free Spirit
by Catherine James

Dandelion: Memoir of a Free Spirit
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Author: Catherine James
Edition: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2007-10-02
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

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Book Review: loved this book
Summary: 5 Stars

I loved this read - this takes me back to a time and captures an age that is rarely captured in any authentic way. The interactions with Bob D. and the great artists of the 60's goes to this perspective on a time that has eluded so many artists. Catherine's journey is remarkable and that she survived to write with spirit and generosity yet with detail that held me fast to the book and not let me put it down. I'm now going through it a second time as a witness to a remarkable time in our history. The early story was painful but set a backdrop for the writer to let go of all the rules and write a life story that is original and not predictable. She reminds us that we live the life we write for ourselves and not the ones that others try to write for us.
Thanks for the good read.
Peter

Summary of Dandelion: Memoir of a Free Spirit

"The rare celebrity-crammed memoir that would be worth reading even without the bold-faced names."--Kirkus Reviews

Catherine James' neglect by her young, beautiful mother?cast a shadow over?her Los Angeles childhood and made her long not for normalcy, but just for escape. Escape to?her beloved grandmother Mimi, or to her Aunt Claire, a former beauty queen who'd had a glamorous life with?ex-husband Busby Berkeley.? Escape to her father, a?race car driver who had been out of her life almost since the day she was born. Escape even 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.

A chance meeting with a very young Bob Dylan inspired Catherine to run away with only one goal: to get to Greenwich Village.? Dandelion follows Catherine's extraordinary life, as she is entranced by Eric Clapton; taken up by the beautiful people in Andy Warhol's Factory; and begins romances with rockers Jackson Browne and Jimmy Page.

While raising her son, whose father was Denny Laine of the Moody Blues and Wings, 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 fractured mother-daughter relationship.

?"James' story.take[s] this movingly written autobiography well beyond the realm of sex, drugs and rock & roll."-Music Connection

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