Hellfire: The Jerry Lee Lewis Story
by Nick Tosches
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Author: Nick ToschesForeword: Greil Marcus
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-04-22
ISBN: 0802135668
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Grove Press
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Book Review: A Dark Fable With No Happy Ending
Summary: 4 Stars
Tosches has done a brilliant job of streamlining Jerry Lee's life into a smooth novelistic parable about Heaven and Hell. Unlike most biographers, he eschews parading facts. He is a very literate writer with lots of classical flourishes. Drama, plot atmosphere and the negative rule, making Hellfire into a dark fable with no happy ending. It is a different approach to biography, one that takes some license with the truth in order to entertain. But it is a great story about a great presence in rock and roll. I enjoyed the book a lot, but when it was over found myself wanting more. More information about why Jerry was the way he was, his effect on the culture, and where he is now.
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