Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin. This item is unavailable.
Language: English
Published by Henry Holt and Company, 2000
- Softcover
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- Title
- Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin
- Author
- Echols, Alice
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0805053948
- ISBN 13
- 9780805053944
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.
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