TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bing, Léon,
TI  - Swans and pistols: modeling, motherhood, and making it in the me generation 
SN  - 9781596914810
AV  - CT 275.B57365 .Sw24 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Bloomsbury
KW  - Models (Persons)
KW  - California
KW  - Mothers and daughters
KW  - Los Angeles
N2  - A vivid portrait of a woman finding her place in the glamorous world of Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s--perfect for readers of high-flying memoirs such as Pattie Boyd's "Wonderful Tonight." Fashion icon, Broadway and Hollywood insider, mob mistress, confidante to notorious gang members of both Crips and Bloods, wife, mother, award-winning journalist, Leon Bing has not followed the typical path through life. From her formative relationship with her mother to her days as a star model to her sisterly relationship with Mama Cass Elliot and ultimate reinvention as the author of the bestselling gang expose, "Do or Die," "Swans and Pistols "details Bing's always exciting and sometimes dangerous life. In a series of riveting stories of unconventionality, Bing wrestles with the themes of mothers, daughters, and reinvention--a concept inseparable from the experience of her early adult life in the 1960s and the city she called home. www.alibris.com
ER  -