I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon
Synopsis:
When Warren Zevon died in 2003, he left behind both a fanatical cult following and a rich catalog of dark, witty rock-n-roll classics that includes "Lawyers, Guns, and Money," "Excitable Boy," and the immortal "Werewolves of London." He also left a trove of misadventures and anecdotes, a veritable rock opera of drugs, women, celebrity, high times, and hard ways. As Warren once said, "I got to be Jim Morrison a lot longer than he did."
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead is an intimate and unusual oral history of one of our most original and distinctive rock-and-roll antiheroes. Narrated by his former wife and longtime co-conspirator, Crystal Zevon, the book draws on over eighty interviews with the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Stephen King, Billy Bob Thornton, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, and countless others who came under his mischievous spell. The result is a raucous and moving tale of love and obsession, creative genius and epic bad behavior. Told in the words and images of the friends, lovers, and legends who knew him best, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead captures Warren Zevon in all his turbulent glory.
Topics/Categories:
1970s, Addiction, Music, Rock 'n' Roll
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New York Times Extended Bestseller List
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Bear Pond Books
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Powells Books
Original Publish Date:
May 1, 2007
Formats and associated ISBNs:
9780060763459; ISBN10: 0060763450
Reading Guides:
Janet Maslin - New York Times Review http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/books/30masl.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Entertainment Weekly - http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20037807,00.html The Literary Word - http://theliteraryword.blogspot.com/2007/04/ill-sleep-when-im-dead-dirty-life-and.html
Formats:
Hardcover; Paperback on sale May, 2008
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