Scars of Sweet Paradise

The Life and Times of Janis Joplin

Alice Echols

Picador

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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.

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Praise for Scars of Sweet Paradise

"A richly detailed portrait. Echols stares unflinchingly at the fault lines of the '60s counter-culture." --Susie Linfield, Los Angeles Times

"This Life's a real Pearl." --Bob Gulla, People

"A serious biography-it does the important stuff well." --Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post

"In Echol's creation Joplin emerges as a true original, compelling, confounding, and rife with contradictions." --Lisa Shea, Elle

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Alice Echols

Alice Echols is a historian and cultural critic. She has taught at UCLA, USC, and Occidental College and has written for The Nation, The Village Voice, and L.A. Weekly. She lives in Los Angeles.

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Scars of Sweet Paradise
The Life and Times of Janis Joplin
Alice Echols

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Trade Paperback
Picador
February 2000
Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780805053944
ISBN10: 0805053948
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 432 pages, Includes sixteen pages of black-and-white photographs
$19.00
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Henry Holt and Co.
Metropolitan Books
March 1999
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ISBN: 9780805053876
ISBN10: 0805053875
6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches, 432 pages, Two, 8-pp b&w photo inserts
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