# The Greta Garbo Home for Wayward Boys and Girls: A Memoir - Hardcover

by **Steven Gaines** (Author)

**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 na?ve chutzpah, manages a to land a book deal that leads to a whirlwind career as a biographer, rock and roll columnist, and roman ? 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 L.A. 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.

**Number of Pages:** 209

**Dimensions:** 1 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN

**Publication Date:** September 03, 2024

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