Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits - Softcover

Hoskyns, Barney

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0767927095 ISBN 13: 9780767927093

Publisher: Crown Pub, 2010

Synopsis

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Review:

Absolutely outstanding" --Danny Baker, BBC

"[This] book lights up and whirls like one of the greasy carnival rides in Mr. Wait's own sprawling oeuvre" --The New York Times

Hoskyn's superlative overview of one of America's major (though idiosyncratic) popular artists will likely stand as the best book on his life"--Library Journal (starred review)

"Hoskyns persevered in writing the first Waits biography, netting fascination firsthand stories, terrific photographs, and fanatically detailed information about studio sessions and concerts...the result is a respectful, entertaining, and revelatory portrait set within a vivid cultural context."--Booklist

"It's about time [Waits] received biographical homage from a rock writer of the stature of Hoskyns."--Stephen Poole, The Guardian

"Comprehensive and judicious. [Waits] could not have found a more respectful, sympathetic and knowledgeable biographer if he'd chosen him himself."--Mick Brown, The Word

"Thanks to his diligence. His Californian connections and some magazine interviews he conducted long ago with Waits, Hoskyn's life comes across as convincingly lifelike."--Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times

Book Description:

Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits, by Barney Hoskyns, is the exhaustive, definitive biography of Tom Waits, one of the most influential artists of all time.

About this edition

• Publisher: Crown Pub
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0767927095
• ISBN 13: 9780767927093
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 609