Touched by the Sun, Carly Simon
Touched by the Sun, Carly Simon
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Touched by the Sun
My Friendship with Jackie

Bestseller

Author: Carly Simon

Narrator: Elizabeth McGovern

Unabridged: 5 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/22/2019


Synopsis

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.

About Carly Simon

Carly Simon is a songwriter and singer of songs. Her children are Ben Taylor and Sally Taylor Bragonier. She has one grandchild: Bodhi Taylor Bragonier. She lives on Martha's Vineyard and is the author of Boys in the Trees.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Simon on January 28, 2020

I skimmed some of the other Goodreads reviews, and wonder if we read the same book. People were either grousing about the lack of "private" information about Jackie Kennedy, or spitting nails about Simon's "invasion" of said privacy. We are talking about the woman who is arguably the iconic 20th cen......more

Goodreads review by Betty on October 22, 2019

Boring If you are looking for any insight to Jackie, you won’t find it here. I do respect Ms. Simon for not giving up any of Jackie’s secrets but had hoped for a bit more of what Jackie’s personality. This book is more like a rambling of thoughts, a bit disjointed.......more

Goodreads review by Sherrie on October 24, 2019

In the acknowledgement, Carly mentions that her current partner, Richard, edited this book down from 800 pages to 238. If those edited pages had included more about Jackie, they should have been included. Pictures would have been nice. This really is a book by Carly about Carly. The rich certainly a......more

Goodreads review by Jacqueline on March 03, 2022

I give this book five stars, as I do anything and everything from the creative powerhouse that is Carly Simon. However, the book is not really about Jackie Kennedy Onassis. This book is about Carly Simon. And that's just fine by me. In many ways, "Touched by the Sun" picks up where "Boys in the Trees......more

Goodreads review by Gill on March 23, 2020

I’ve written a novel about Jackie Kennedy that tries to get under her skin, so I was positively salivating to read Carly Simon’s memoir about their friendship. They met in 1983 at the Ocean Club in Martha’s Vineyard, and Jackie became the editor of two children’s books Carly wrote. They went to dinn......more