Howard Sounes: 8 books

Book cover of Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life

by Howard Sounes
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007

“A lively portrait of American literature’s ‘Dirty Old Man’.” —Library Journal A former postman and long-term alcoholic who did not become a full-time writer until middle age, Charles Bukowski was the author of autobiographical novels that captured the low life—including Post...
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The Wicked Game

Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, and the Business of Modern Golf

by Howard Sounes
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009

Golf is sometimes referred to as "the wicked game" because it is fiendishly difficult to play well. Yet in the parlance of the Tiger Woods generation, it's also a wickedly good game -- rich, glamorous, and more popular than ever. When we think about golf -- as it is played at its...

27

Book cover of 27

27

A History of the 27 Club through the Lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse

by Howard Sounes
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013

When singer Amy Winehouse was found dead at her London home in 2011, the press inducted her into what Kurt Cobain's mother named the 27 Club. “Now he's gone and joined that stupid club,” she said in 1994, after being told that her son, the front man of Nirvana, had committed suicide. “I told him...
Book cover of Fred & Rose

Fred & Rose

The Full Story of Fred and Rose West and the Gloucester House of Horrors

by Howard Sounes
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017

The definitive account of one of Britain**’**s most notorious killer couples, who loved, tortured, and slayed together as husband and wife. Updated with a new afterword from the author on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the arrests From the outside, 25 Cromwell Street in Gloucester,...
Book cover of FAB! Het leven van Paul McCartney
by Howard Sounes
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 21, 2011

Fab! vertelt het leven van Paul McCartney, van zijn vroegste kindertijd tot de gloriedagen van The Beatles. Het laat zien hoe hij opgroeide van Liverpools jochie tot creatief brein van de grootste band aller tijden. Maar het boek behandelt ook meer dan andere biografieën zijn leven en werk daarna....

Fab

Book cover of Fab

Fab

An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney

by Howard Sounes
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010

Howard Sounes, the bestselling author of Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan and Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life, turns his considerable reporting and storytelling skills to one of the most famous, talented-and wealthiest-men alive: Paul McCartney. Fab is the first...
Book cover of Down the Highway

Down the Highway

The Life of Bob Dylan

by Howard Sounes
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011

The acclaimed biography—now updated and revised. “Many writers have tried to probe [Dylan’s] life, but never has it been done so well, so captivatingly” (The Boston Globe). Howard Sounes’s Down the Highway broke news about Dylan’s fiercely guarded personal life and set the standard...
Book cover of Lou Reed
by Howard Sounes
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 12, 2016

Lou Reed is het schokkende en donkere portret van een van de meest gecompliceerde persoonlijkheden uit de geschiedenis van de popmuziek. In een directe stijl, doorspekt met filmische anekdotes, lezen we Reeds aangrijpende levensverhaal. Over elektroshocks, drugs, alcohol, gitaren, New York, vechtpartijen,...
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