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Yoko Ono

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"The merest outline of her life is fascinating. Born to a Tokyo family of merchant aristocrats, she was raised in unusual combinations of pampered luxury and benign neglect, traditional Japanese values and permissive American Influences. During the Second World War, her native city was firebombed beyond recognition and her homeland devastated and humiliated by history's first application of nuclear warfare. She later graduated from Japan's best schools and dropped out of Sarah Lawrence College to live with the first of her three husbands in bohemian New York. That marriage in ruins, she returned to Tokyo, spent time in an asylum, married a dangerous American jazz musician and had her first child. When that marriage also deteriorated, she landed in London in the arms of arguably the most famous rock star alive, John Lennon, just as he was parting ways with the Beatles, She and Lennon abandoned England for a new life in New York; less than a decade later, he was shot dead on the sidewalk outside of their apartment. Ever since, she has been keeper of the Lennon flame, a hugely successful business woman, one of New York's most beloved and iconic citizens, and a globally recognized activist. At the same time, her artistic achievements are diverse and deeply impressive..." Book jacket.
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