Scars of Sweet Paradise : The Life & Times of Janis Joplin by Alice Echols 3128
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Era
- 1990s
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780805053876
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Holt & Company, Henry
ISBN-10
0805053875
ISBN-13
9780805053876
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1059573
Product Key Features
Book Title
Scars of Sweet Paradise : the Life and Times of Janis Joplin
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
Topic
Composers & Musicians, Entertainment & Performing Arts
Illustrator
Yes
Features
Revised
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
27.5 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
98-042562
Dewey Edition
21
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 Decimal
782.4/2/166/092
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
Janis 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 Number
ML420.J77E25 1999
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