Swans and Pistols: Modeling, Motherhood, and Making It in the Me Generation
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Overview
Fashion icon, Broadway and Hollywood insider, mob mistress, confidante to notorious gang members of both Crips and Bloods, wife, mother, award-winning journalist, Léon 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 exposé, 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.
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.
LA STORY: This is sure to appeal to followers of the LA scene.
WOMEN’S STORIES: Bing’s story of balancing family and work and her struggles to get a professional foothold will resonate with women readers.
MEMOIR WITH A TWIST: Written in a hard-edged, humorous and insightful prose style that captivates the reader’s interest from start to finish, Swans and Pistols is sure to win marks for its vivid descriptive detail and amusing characterizations.
WHO’S WHO OF LA: Leon trafficked with a high profile, high octane bunch, including Dennis Hopper, Mickey Cohen, David Merrick, John Steppling, and many more.
A powerful portrait of life on the streets.
Ambitious and provocative.
Bing is a reporter of remarkable vividness and subtlety...passionately objective...a remarkable, compellingly readable piece of reporting.
Fascinating and frightening.
Poignant.
Shocking.
- Title: Swans and Pistols: Modeling, Motherhood, and Making It in the Me Generation
- Author: Leon Bing
- Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
- Print Publication Date: 2009
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 240
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781608191314, 9781596914810, 1596914815, 1608191311
- Resource ID: LLS:9781608191314
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T15:25:24Z
A former model, Léon Bing is the author of Do or Die, a profile of the archrival gangs the Bloods and the Crips, which she wrote after spending extensive periods of time among the two factions. She lives in Los Angeles.