The Facts of Life and Other Dirty Jokes - Hardcover

Nelson, Willie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375507310 ISBN 13: 9780375507311

Publisher: Random House, 2002

Synopsis

If you had to give America a voice, it’s been said more than once, that voice would be Willie Nelson’s. For more than fifty years, he’s taken the stuff of his life-the good and the bad-and made from it a body of work that has become a permanent part of our musical heritage and kept us company through the good and the bad of our own lives. Long before he became famous as a performer, Willie Nelson was known as a songwriter, keeping his young family afloat by writing songs-like “Crazy”-that other people turned into hits.

So it’s fitting, and cause for celebration, that he has finally set down in his own words, a book that does justice to his great gifts as a storyteller. In The Facts of Life, Willie Nelson reflects on what has mattered to him in life and what hasn’t. He also tells some great dirty jokes. The result is a book as wise and hilarious as its author. It’s not meant to be taken seriously as an instruction manual for living-but you could do a lot worse.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

“Who knew the world’s best-loved country singer had such a good sense of humor?”
—Texas Monthly

“You can’t not like Willie Nelson.”
—The San Diego Union-Tribune

“Pure Willie Nelson...equal parts minstrel, scoundrel, and cowboy—and all of it’s genuine.”
—The Washington Times
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About the Author:

Born in Abbott, Texas, on April 29, 1933, Willie Nelson is one of the most popular, prolific, and influential songwriters and singers in the history of American music. He has been inducted into a number of music halls of fame, was named a Kennedy Center honoree in 1998, and was given a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. He has recorded more than one hundred albums over six decades. In January 2002, Lost Highway Records will release his first major album of all-new material in five years, The Great Divide.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0375507310
• ISBN 13: 9780375507311
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240