{"product_id":"walking-with-the-muses-a-memoir","title":"Walking with the Muses: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn exciting account of the international adventures of fashion model Pat Clevelandone of the first black supermodels during the wild sixties and seventies.  New York in the sixties and seventies was glamorous and gritty at the same time  a place where people like Warhol  Avedon  and Halston as well their muses came to pursue their wildest ambitions  and when the well began to run dry they darted off to Paris. Though born on the very fringes of this world  Patricia Cleveland  through a combination of luck  incandescent beauty  and enviable style  soon found herself in the center of all that was creative  bohemian  and elegant. A walking girl  a runway fashion model whose inimitable style still turns heads on the runways of New York  Paris  Milan  and Tokyo  Cleveland was in high demand.  Ranging from the streets of New York to the jet-set beaches of Mexico  from the designer retailers of Paris to the offices of Diana Vreeland  here is Clevelands larger-than-life story. One minute shes in a Harlem tenement making her own clothes and dreaming of something bigger  the next shes about to walk Halstons show alongside fellow model Anjelica Huston. One minute shes partying with Mick Jagger and Jack Nicholson  the next shes sharing the dance floor next to a man with stark white hair  an artist the world would later know as Warhol. One moment shes idolizing the silver screen sensation Warren Beatty  years later  shes deciding whether to resist his considerable amorous charms. In New York  she struggles to secure her first cover of a major magazine. In Paris  shes the toast of the town. And through the whirlwind of it all  she is forever in pursuit of love  truth  and beauty.  A page-turning memoir of a life well lived  Walking with the Muses is a book you wont soon forget.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964785520693,"sku":"ByrdShop_1501108220","price":60.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781501108228.jpg?v=1770479850","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/walking-with-the-muses-a-memoir","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}