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Product Identifiers
PublisherHolt & Company, Henry
ISBN-100805053875
ISBN-139780805053876
eBay Product ID (ePID)1059573
Product Key Features
Book TitleScars of Sweet Paradise : the Life and Times of Janis Joplin
Number of Pages432 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1999
TopicComposers & Musicians, Entertainment & Performing Arts
IllustratorYes
FeaturesRevised
GenreBiography & Autobiography
AuthorAlice Echols
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight27.5 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN98-042562
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"A richly detailed portrait. Echols stares unflinchingly at the fault lines of the '60s counter-culture." (Susie Linfield, Los Angeles Times) "This Life's a real Pearl." (Bob Gulla, People) "A serious biography-it does the important stuff well." (Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post) "In Echol's creation Joplin emerges as a true original, compelling, confounding, and rife with contradictions." (Lisa Shea, Elle)
Dewey Decimal782.4/2/166/092
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisJanis Joplin was the skyrocket chick of the sixties, the woman who broke into the boys' club of rock and out of the stifling good-girl femininity of postwar America. With her incredible wall-of-sound vocals, Joplin was the voice of a generation, and when she OD'd on heroin in October 1970, a generation's dreams crashed and burned with her. Alice Echols pushes past the legary Joplin-the red-hot mama of her own invention-as well as the familiar portrait of the screwed-up star victimized by the era she symbolized, to examine the roots of Joplin's muscianship and explore a generation's experiment with high-risk living and the terrible price it exacted. A deeply affecting biography of one of America's most brilliant and tormented stars, Scars of Sweet Paradise is also a vivid and incisive cultural history of an era that changed the world for us all., Drawing on hundreds of interviews, a noted 1960s historian goes beyond the legend of Janis Joplin to reveal the roots of her musical talent and the chaotic world in which she lived and died.
LC Classification NumberML420.J77E25 1999
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- 24. Mai. 2016
Book explores the real Janis
This is a very well written book, full of information that is not in the body of common knowledge. Raw, honest and compelling to the true Janis fan.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
