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A sequel to the author's critically acclaimed Delphinium title, One of These Things First, The Greta Garbo Home for Wayward Boys and Girls is a poison-pen, love letter to the end of an era-Manhattan during the decadent, late 1970s.
Picking up where he left off at the end of his widely praised debut memoir, One of These Things First, Gaines recounts his hilarious, sometimes poignant attempt to forge a writing career and a successful love life in the gay world of the 1970s. He has limited success until he falls in love with an older woman dying of cancer. Meanwhile, he serendipitously begins a career as a writer when he meets a former child evangelist, and with naïve chutzpah, manages a to land a book deal that leads to a whirlwind career as a biographer, rock and roll columnist, and roman à clef novelist who writes a book with a Studio 54 bartender that brings the world down around them. From inside the entertainment business in New York and Los Angeles to inside the publishing world, Gaines narrates a life of escapades and adventures and searching for love in all the wrong places. After hitting rock bottom, he writes a book about the Beatles that ends up on the New York Times bestseller list, leading to popular esteem and a feeling of momentary redemption.
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About Steven Gaines
Steven Gaines is the New York Times bestselling author of several books. His journalism has appeared in Vanity Fair, the New York Times, and New York magazine, where he was a contributing editor for twelve years. He is the co-founder and a past vice-chairman of the Hamptons International Film Festival. Peter Brown is the former COO of Apple Corp, the Beatles’ financial empire. He has been a Beatles intimate since their earliest days in Liverpool. He was best man at John and Yoko’s wedding, he introduced Paul to Linda Eastman, and he is the only real person ever mentioned in a Beatles song, “Peter Brown called to say, you can make it okay, you can marry in Gibraltar near Spain,” from the “Ballad of John and Yoko.” He is chairman of the international public relations firm of BLJ Worldwide.