Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin (Paperback) (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.

Author: Alice Echols
ISBN-10: 0805053948
ISBN-13: 9780805053944
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Language: English
Published: 02/15/2000
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.30d