Willie: An Autobiography

Nelson, Willie with Bud Shrake

ISBN 10: 0671642650 / ISBN 13: 9780671642655

Published by Simon and Schuster, NY, 1988

About this Item

First printing (full number line). Down home writing. Illustrated with two sections of black & white photographs on glossy paper (28 pages). Includes index. 334 + illus. pages. The book has neither wear nor defects. No owners' writing. The nice dust jacket has a portrait of Willie Nelson. No tears. The jacket is protected with a mylar book jacket cover. The book will be sent to you well packed in a box. Seller Inventory # 0003535

Bibliographic Details

Title: Willie: An Autobiography

Publisher: Simon and Schuster, NY

Publication Date: 1988

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Edition: First Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

The songwriter and country singer who has transcended his background to become an American folk hero describes his poor childhood, his stormy marriages, and his wild experiences with drugs and alcohol

From Publishers Weekly:

Nelson, self-proclaimed "outlaw" of country music, is depicted from many angles in this rambling account of his trajectory into celebrity. Written with freelancer Shrake in salty and sometimes vulgar language, Nelson's reflections on his three wives, children, his country music peers and others in his large, floating entourage reveal a hard-living man. The singer toiled in the fields as a child during the Depression, was left by his teenage parents with grandparents who raised him and his sister in Texas. The experience was pivotal to his career: "My desire to escape from manual labor started in the cotton fields of my childhood and cannot be overstated." Nelson began his road life as "an itinerant singer and guitar picker" on trips punctuated with alcohol, drugs and sex as he climbed to eminence in the world of country music. Now "crossed over," popular with national audiences, Nelson notes that he enjoys all the personal perquisites of his success. Among his revelations here, the singer recalls smoking pot on the roof of the White House after entertaining at a Carter state dinner. Photos not seen by PW. BOMC and QPBC alternates; first serial to Texas Monthly and Golf Digest; paperback rights to Pocket Books.
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