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Out of the Texas-Louisiana swamps she wailed the blues like no one, black or white, has ever dared. She was Janis Joplin--the first rock star of the 1960s counterculture, a fashion trendsetter in San Francisco's back-to-the-roots movement that overtook the world, a prisoner of an ultimately doomed search for happiness in sex and drugs, money and fame.

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On a sweltering street corner in Port Arthur, Texas, hometown of Janis Joplin, the greatest female singer in the history of rock 'n' roll, I watch a construction crew demolish the twelve-story Goodhue Hotel, scene of Janis's last public appearance twenty years ago.

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  • Title Pearl: The Obsessions and Passions of Janis Joplin
  • Author Ellis Amburn
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First trade prin
  • Pages 372
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Grand Central Publishing, New York
  • Publication date September 1, 1993
  • ISBN 9780446395069 / 0446395064
  • Weight 1.19 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.14 x 5.92 x 0.88 in (23.22 x 15.04 x 2.24 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Rock musicians - United States - Biography, Singers - United States - Biography
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 91051178
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
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