
Pearl
Obsessions and Passions of Janis Joplin
Ellis Amburn(Author)
Sphere (Publisher)
Published on 30. August 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-7515-4037-6 (ISBN)
Description
The singer Janis Joplin's childhood in a backwater Texas town, where her classmates punished her for her individuality, fuelled the compulsion to shock which became her hallmark.
This account of the forces that drove her through a short, impulsive life, to her death from a drug overdose at the age of twenty-seven, encompasses her binges, her egotism, her insecurities, and her affairs with figures such as Jim Morrison, Kris Kristofferson and Jimi Hendrix, and many lesbian lovers.
This account of the forces that drove her through a short, impulsive life, to her death from a drug overdose at the age of twenty-seven, encompasses her binges, her egotism, her insecurities, and her affairs with figures such as Jim Morrison, Kris Kristofferson and Jimi Hendrix, and many lesbian lovers.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Little, Brown Book Group
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Section: 16, b/w
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
439 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7515-4037-6 (9780751540376)
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Book
06/1994
Time Warner Paperbacks
€31.15
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Person
Ellis Edward Amburn was an American book editor and biographer.