SHE LOVES YOU: A Curious Tale Concerning a Miraculous Intervention - Hardcover

Segal, Elaine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684838958 ISBN 13: 9780684838953

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1997

Synopsis

A teenage girl wishes she could conquer her father's disdain of the Beatles, and one night she gets her chance when the Beatles' limousine breaks down in front of their house

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Praise for SHE LOVES YOU "Billy Graham said of the Beatles, 'They're just a passing phase. All are symptoms of our times and the confusion around us.' "She Loves You," written with great emotional clarity, proves him wrong. This wonderful, funny, melancholy book, about fathers and daughters and the sudden unpredictable intervention of the world into family life, offers such intense nostalgia that it made me laugh and cry all at once. I put on the Beatles' 'Norwegian Wood'-I still own a turntable-and listened to it, and read "She Loves You" five times in a row with bittersweet pleasure."

-Howard Norman, author of "The Bird Artist" "I was charmed and touched by Elaine Segal's tale. It throws a wistful bridge across an old generation gap, but it's good enough for new generation gaps, too."

-Andrei Codrescu, NPR Commentator and author

of "The Blood Countess" "This book is unique. It's an evocation of a moment of generational identity--the memory of where we were, and who we were, when we became conscious of the Beatles. Segal makes the universal personal--her story becomes our story. It's a document of history for the young, a revisitation for the middle-aged, and a work of art for everyone."

-Daniel Pinkwater, NPR Commentator and author

of "Five Novels" "Elaine Segal's bright, wondrous tale took me back to the day in 1965 when my father broke my nine-year-old heart for the first time. 'Isn't "Yesterday" a pretty song?' I asked him hopefully. 'Who do those Beatles think they're kidding?' my Bronx-born dad replied. 'No two guys could write all those songs. Everybody knows it's the same guys who write for Sinatra.' "She Loves You" beautifully evokes the necessary but sometimes painful struggle between fathers and daughters-indeed, all parents and their children."

-Patricia Romanowski, coeditor of "The New

Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll" "She Loves You" should have been my bible, my handbook, my primer back in those teenage years while I waited for the Beatles to find my house. "She Loves You" is a McGuffy's Reader for anyone who remembers what it was like to discover that Paul and John knew EVERYTHING, while Mom and Dad knew, well, NOTHING."

-Cathie Pelletier, author of "A Marriage Made

in Woodstock" "A visual-verbal charmer that captures the essence of adolescence and the innocence of the Beatles."

-Ilene Beckerman, author of "Love, Loss And

What I Wore" "She Loves You" offers more pleasure per page than any book I've picked up in years. Segal and Richbourg have collaborated magically in making this fairy tale for grown-ups, this myth of late twentieth-century Anglo-American culture, this poem, this vision! You'll need at least three copies-one for yourself, one for your kids, and one to lend to your literate friends."

-David Huddle, author of "Only The Little Bone"

About the Author:

Elaine Segal writes and produces radio plays and commentaries for National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" and has contributed essays to national publications including "Smithsonian Magazine," "Mirabella," and "The Miami Herald." She lives in Burlington, Vermont.

Lance Richbourg is a painter whose work is represented by the OK Harris gallery in New York City. He teaches art at St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0684838958
• ISBN 13: 9780684838953
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64