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Scars of sweet paradise
the life and times of Janis Joplin
By Echols, Alice
- ISBN
- 978-0-80505-387-6
- Publisher
- Henry Holt, c1999.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 1999
This "sociological" biography attempts not only to tell the facts of Joplin's life but to try to understand her in the context of her times. Echols, a historian of the 1960s (Daring To Be Bad: Radical Feminisim in America, 1967-1975, Univ. of Minnesota, 1990) has spent five years researching Joplin and interviewing her friends. She argues that Joplin wa...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
