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Seven Dirty Words: The Life and Crimes of George Carlin
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Seven Dirty Words: The Life and Crimes of George Carlin Hardcover - 2010

by James Sullivan


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In Seven Dirty Words, journalist and cultural critic James Sullivan tells the story of Alternative America from the 1950s to the present, from the singular vantage point of George Carlin, the Catholic boy for whom nothing was sacred. A critical biography, Seven Dirty Words is an insightful (and, of course, hilarious) examination of Carlin's body of work as it pertained to its cultural times and the man who created it, from his early days as amore-or-less conventional comedian to his stunning transformation into the subversive comedic voice of the emerging counterculture. Sullivan also chronicles Carlin's struggles with censorship and drugs, as well as the full-blown renaissance he experienced in the 1990s, both personally and professionally, when he became an elder statesman to a younger generation of comics who revered him. Seven Dirty Words is nothing less than the definitive biography of an American master who changed the world, and also a work of cultural commentary which frames George Carlin's extraordinary legacy.

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  • Title Seven Dirty Words: The Life and Crimes of George Carlin
  • Author James Sullivan
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 261
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Da Capo Press, Cambridge, MA
  • Date 2010-06
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780306818295 / 0306818299
  • Weight 1.03 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.52 x 6.62 x 0.94 in (24.18 x 16.81 x 2.39 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Comedians - United States, Carlin, George
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010000583
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

James Sullivan is a regular contributor to the Boston Globe. He previously served as the pop music and culture critic at the San Francisco Chronicle and has written for Rolling Stone and many other publications.
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