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Touched by the Sun: My Friendship with Jackie Audio CD – Unabridged, November 19, 2019

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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 mundane 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.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Macmillan Audio; Unabridged edition (November 19, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1250245419
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1250245410
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.9 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.44 x 0.85 x 6.75 inches

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Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and children's author. She first rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records; her 13 Top 40 U.S. hits include "Anticipation" (No. 13), "You Belong To Me" (No. 6), "Coming Around Again" (No. 18), and her four Gold certified singles "Jesse" (No. 11), "Mockingbird" (No. 5), a duet with James Taylor, "You're So Vain" (No. 1), and "Nobody Does It Better" (No. 2) from the 1977 James Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me.

After a brief stint with her sister Lucy Simon as duo group the Simon Sisters, she found great success as a solo artist with her 1971 self-titled debut album Carly Simon, which won her the Grammy Award for Best New Artist, and spawned her first Top 10 single "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be". Simon achieved international fame with her third album No Secrets which sat firmly at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for 5 weeks, and spawned the worldwide hit "You're So Vain", for which she received three Grammy nominations, including Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Over the course of her career, Simon has amassed 24 Billboard Hot 100 charting singles, 28 Billboard Adult Contemporary charting singles, and has won two Grammy Awards. AllMusic called Simon, "One of the quintessential singer/songwriters of the '70s". Simon has a contralto vocal range.

For her 1988 hit "Let the River Run", from the film Working Girl, Simon became the first artist in history to win a Grammy Award, an Academy Award, and a Golden Globe Award for a song composed and written, as well as performed, entirely by a single artist. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1994, inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for "You're So Vain" in 2004, and awarded the ASCAP Founders Award in 2012. In 1995 and 1998, respectively, Simon received the Boston Music Awards Lifetime Achievement and a Berklee College of Music Honorary Doctor of Music Degree.

Simon is the former wife of another notable singer-songwriter, James Taylor. Simon and Taylor have two children together, Sarah "Sally" Maria Taylor and Benjamin "Ben" Simon Taylor, who are also musicians.

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Amy Trerotoli

I’m so glad I read this book…..

Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2023

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Having read Carly Simon’s autobiography, you get to really know her. I loved the stories and the insight into one of the iconic figures our time - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis through Carly’s detail of their friendship.

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A UNIQUE FRIENDSHIP...

Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2019

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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.

My Thoughts: I was caught up in the author’s thoughts about her relationship with Jackie in Touched by the Sun. I discovered a few tidbits about Jackie in Carly Simon’s narrative, but more than anything, I could see who Jackie was from Carly’s perspective.

If I was hoping for more layers about Jackie, however, I did not find them in this book. I was glad to see Jackie from Carly’s point of view, and this glimpse of Jackie and their friendship was a treasure because I do admire Carly Simon, and enjoyed her thoughts and feelings. Therefore, I kept reading until the very last page. 3.5 stars.

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Thank you, Carly!!!

Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2019

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Friendship. It’s an entity unto itself, isn’t it? There’s one friend (Carly) and then there’s the other (Jackie), and then there’s the friendship that burns like a candle between them. This book is about that candle. It is not a tell-all about either woman, though Carly’s disarming candor, and the fearlessness with which she shares how the world looks through her eyes, reveals much about her humanity, her humor, and her wisdom.

Carly uses her lyrical way with words to write this love song, of sorts, to friendship. To a relationship that was composed of shared secrets and easy familiarity as much as it was with unanswered questions and sometimes awkward moments.

I give huge credit to Carly for this honest telling of their story. A lesser human in Carly’s situation might easily have been tempted to embellish, to portray the friendship as more flawlessly intimate than it was. A lesser human would almost certainly be at least tempted to let a little of Jackie’s stardust sprinkle on them.

But Carly has an expansive, kind, and generous soul. I can’t claim to know all of her reasons for writing this book, but there is one thing that is almost palpable as you read: Carly is a person who uses her words the same way she uses her musical talents: to make connections with other souls. She expresses feelings of doubt, tells stories on herself that might not be completely flattering. She is sharing her humanity, and hoping you’ll recognize that same feeling that you, the reader, have within yourself. She is extending a hand and hoping you will take it, and join her as she tells her story.

If you’re looking for a tell-all book about Jackie, this isn’t your book. If you’re looking for a book that reflects on the nature of friendship as it existed between two remarkable women, then grab yourself a cup of hot tea, find your fuzzy slippers, light a fire in the fireplace, and settle in for a conversation with Carly. What a gift she has given all of us in this delicious book!

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Angus/malcolmnews.

Interesting Read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 17, 2023

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Nice to read about one of the worlds biggest female icons and how her private friends helped her cope in life.

Toni E. Hoffman

I wanted to like this book but I didn’t.

Reviewed in Australia on January 10, 2023

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I found this book to be quite strange. I found myself considering the veracity of the wording. Obviously, I did not know Jackie, but I couldn’t imagine her speaking the way Carly Quoted her. It felt sycophantic. I’d like to read her first book as it has good reviews also but I don’t want to pay for someone’s imagination

Jon M. Willis

Beautiful love note to a friendship

Reviewed in Australia on August 27, 2020

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As beautifully written as some of her best lyrics, Touched by the Sun is Carly Simon’s elegy to her great friend Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. This is insightful without being prurient and serves as both a lovely memoir of the later Jackie as well as an autobiographical sketch that covers (roughly) the years of Carly’s marriage to Jim Hart. It proves the quality of Carly’s observational skills, her talent for dialogue, and her ability to spin a compelling yarn that hooked me from the dramatic opening and kept me hooked to the inevitably sad end.

Marie

Jackie Kennedy by her friend Carly Simon

Reviewed in France on May 21, 2022

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Good book if you like Carly Simon and want to know more about her friendship with Jackie Kennedy.

Kim Schroeder

Don't Waste Your Money!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 10, 2020

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Went into this purchase with high hopes in finding out-at last-a personal account of a close friendship between these two women revealing a little more personal information about the real Jackie O! WRONG! I struggled with the way the book was written with really flowery language where one sentence would have done which was frustrating-but- my biggest bugbear- is that we come away from this book with more information about how Miss Simon felt/feels than any clear description about her friendship with Mrs Onassis which I am assuming was the point in writing it in the first place? We get no indication about how Jackie felt about this "friendship" with Carly Simon and I totally regret my full price purchase of this book. Not wanting-or indeed-expecting a "tell-all" book there was absolutely nothing to warrent this publication-if you want to read about Jackie in more detail-or actually in ANY detail then please look elsewhere!!

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