Steven Gaines 
The Greta Garbo Home for Wayward Boys and Girls [EPUB ebook] 
A Memoir

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 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 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.

About the author

Steven Gaines is the twice New York Times best-selling author of Philistines at the Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the Hamptons and The Love You Make. He has also written Marjoe , the biography of evangelist Marjoe Gortner; Me, Alice, the autobiography of rock star Alice Cooper; The Love You Make: An Insider’s Story of the Beatles (with Peter Brown); Heroes and Villain: True Story of the Beach Boys; Simply Halston: The Untold Story; Obsession: The Lives and Times of Calvin Klein; The Sky’s the Limit: Passion and Property in Manhattan; Fool’s Paradise: Players, Poseurs, and the Culture of Excess in South Beach; a memoir One of These Things First, and the novels The Club and Another Runner in the Night.