Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin

Name: Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin
Brand: Picador Paper
SKU: 9780805053944-G
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By ALICE ECHOLS

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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.

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: illustrated
Number of Pages:: 464
Release Date:: 2000-02-15
Publication Date:: 2000-02-15
Publisher:: Picador Paper
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 0805053948
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 1050 g
Height:: 21 cm
Width:: 14 cm
Thickness:: 2.9 cm

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