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Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits Paperback - 2010 - 1st Edition

by Barney Hoskyns

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Barney Hoskyns is cofounder and editorial director of the online rock-journalism library Rock’s Backpages (www.rocksbackpages.com), and author of several books including Across the Great Divide: The Band and America (1993), Hotel California: Singer-Songwriters and Cocaine Cowboys in the LA Canyons (2005), and the newly reissued Waiting for the Sun: A Rock and Roll History of Los Angeles. A former U.S. correspondent for Mojo, Hoskyns writes for Uncut, the Observer Music Monthly, and other U.K. publications, and has contributed to Vogue, Rolling Stone, and GQ. He lives in southwest London.

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  • Title Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits
  • Author Barney Hoskyns
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 640
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)
  • Date 2010-05-11
  • Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780767927093 / 0767927095
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.4 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 3.56 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Chronological Period: 1950-1999
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

Media reviews

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

Citations

  • New York Times Book Review, 06/06/2010, Page 44

About the author

Barney Hoskyns is cofounder and editorial director of the online rock-journalism library Rock's Backpages (www.rocksbackpages.com), and author of several books including Across the Great Divide: The Band and America (1993), Hotel California: Singer-Songwriters and Cocaine Cowboys in the LA Canyons (2005), and the newly reissued Waiting for the Sun: A Rock and Roll History of Los Angeles. A former U.S. correspondent for Mojo, Hoskyns writes for Uncut, the Observer Music Monthly, and other U.K. publications, and has contributed to Vogue, Rolling Stone, and GQ. He lives in southwest London.
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