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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.

Pearl Obsessions and Passions of Janis Joplin

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      Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
      Publication Date: 8/30/2007 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780751540376, 978-0751540376
      ISBN10: 0751540374

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.

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