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(More customer reviews)This is a story about friends. That can be said for many memoires, but this book is truly a collaborative effort. Colton's story isn't simply one perspective of friendship, but that of an entire group.
Anyone who watches the TV show `Mad Men', knows the late 1950s/early 60s was a difficult time for women. Periods of transition can be especially trying. Support outside the family is needed during these times, and Colton beautifully describes her fortune when reaching beyond her troubled home.
The story is universal, but the book distinguishes itself in allowing other voices. Rather than solely her own struggle, the author reached-out once again; offering her life-long friends a short chapter of their own.
When reading these separate accounts, I thought: `What group of friends wouldn't want to take part in such an exercise?'... `Why don't more friends do this?'...'I hope the book serves as a model.'
Each woman takes a different angle, but there are two universal themes: friendship and Newport. For all who have visited and enjoyed the city, this is a book for you. It will introduce you to a community beyond the simple, summer retreat.
'The Newport Girls' is truly a story for all ages. Colton describes a difficult life, without graphic details. She avoids cheap shots, but doesn't sugar-coat. She presents a group of friends I would wish upon my sisters or daughters. Most importantly, she shares with the reader a collaborative diary of friends who sustain.
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At the tender age of eleven, Elaine Colton moved to Newport, Rhode Island, to live with her Navy civilian engineer father. Life had already been difficult for Elaine, having lost her mother at an early age; she desperately needed a friend to stand by her side. Instead, she got not one, but fifteen friends who supported her from childhood through adulthood for the next fifty years.Warm, witty, and full of love, The Newport Girls chronicles Colton's extraordinary lifelong relationship with her closest girlfriends. Beginning in 1952, Colton relates meeting Leenie Callahan, a girl who lived across the street, and how the two soon became best friends. They expanded their friendship circle in high school to include other like-minded girls. Together, these friends modeled for the local department store, wrote columns for the school paper, and enjoyed their carefree high school years.Despite the girls' wide dispersal around the country following graduation, they never lost affection for each other. Through marriages, career changes, children, financial hardships, divorce, and even death, the bond these women maintained for so long continued to hold strong. Along with numerous snapshots, other Newport Girls share their experiences in touching personal essays.In a story of the power of enduring friendship, the Newport Girls were always there for each other-and still are today.
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