Buy this book on-line JOPLIN, LAURA: : Love JanisLONDON.BLOOMSBURY,1992. ISBN 0747512655.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. 8vo,342pp,b/w photographs.
The first major biography of JANIS JOPLIN
for 20 yrs.The author LAURA,Janis's younger sister.
Through the eyes of her family and closest friends - we see Janis as a young girl in Port Arthur,TEXAS already rebelling against injustice,racism, hypocrisy in society; discovering JACK KERUOAC and the 'BEATS',and visiting forbidden Cajun bars in search of the blues.We follow her through the 'BEATS' hang-outs of Venice and North Beach, singing in coffee houses and shooting speed to enhance her creativity.Janis truly came into her own in the fantastic psychedelic,acid-soaked world of HAIGHT ASHBURY.Here is Janis living with members of her band,Big Brother and the Holding Company,hanging out with the GRATEFUL DEAD and Hell's Angels; breaking out in triumphant performances at MONTERAY and in New York City.
At the height of her fame Janis's life is
a whirlwind of public adoration and hard living - struggling to perfect her art, battling to overcome her alcohol addiction
and heroin use,in a world where substance abuse was universal.Contains a series of letters by Janis,that have never previously been published.In them,she conveys,as no-one else could the wild ride from awkward small-town teenager to rock and roll queen.
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