Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon (U)

Recounts The Life And Achievements Of The American Music Icon, Detailing His Youth As A Grandchild Of Jewish Hungarian Immigrants, His Celebrity Relationships, And The Definitive Music That Earned Him Fifteen Grammy Awards And Two Inductions Into The Rock 'n' Roll Hall Of Fame,--novelist. To Have Been Alive During The Last Sixty Years Is To Have Lived With The Music Of Paul Simon. The Boy From Queens Scored His First Hit Record In 1957, Just Months After Elvis Presley Ignited The Rock Era. As The Songwriting Half Of Simon From The Civil Rights Era To The Antiapartheid Movement; From The Monterey Pop Festival To Saturday Night Live, Woody Allen's Annie Hall, The Rebirth Of The Modern Broadway Musical, And Beyond. A Life Story With The Scope And Power Of An Epic Novel, Peter Ames Carlin's Homeward Bound Reveals One Of The Most Influential Popular Artists In American History As He Has Never Been Seen Before: As A Boy And A Man, An Artist And A Businessman, A Lover And Husband, And The Living Animation Of America's Ever-changing Definitions Of Personal And Cultural Identity.--from Dust Jacket. Real And Assumed -- The Tailor -- Our Song -- Nowhere To Go But Up! -- Two Teenagers -- The Freedom Criers -- What Are You Searching For, Carlos Dominguez -- The Voice Of The Now -- He Was My Brother -- It Means Nothing To Us -- Some Dream Of What I Might Be -- Bookends -- So Long Already, Artie -- I'd Rather Be -- That's It, That's The Groove -- Through No Fault Of My Own -- Swallowed By A Song -- What Did You Expect? -- There Are The Roots Of Rhythm -- I've Got Nothing To Apologize For -- The Whole World Whispering -- Phantom Figures In The Dust -- The Teacher -- See What's Become Of Me. Peter Ames Carlin. Includes Bibliographical References (pages [377]-393) And Index.