Hank: The Short Life and Long Country Road of Hank Williams

Hank: The Short Life and Long Country Road of Hank Williams
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Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Total Pages : 426
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ISBN-10 : 9781631491580
ISBN-13 : 163149158X
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Book Synopsis Hank: The Short Life and Long Country Road of Hank Williams by : Mark Ribowsky

Download or read book Hank: The Short Life and Long Country Road of Hank Williams written by Mark Ribowsky and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A compassionate yet clear-eyed" (Washington Post) portrait of country music’s founding father and "Hillbilly King." Mark Ribowsky’s Hank has been hailed as the "greatest biography yet" (Library Journal, starred review) of the beloved icon. Hank Williams, a frail, flawed man who had become country music’s first real star, instantly morphed into its first tragic martyr when he died in the backseat of a Cadillac at the age of twenty-nine. Six decades later, Ribowsky traces the miraculous rise of this music legend?from the dirt roads of rural Alabama to the now-immortal stage of the Grand Ole Opry, and, finally, to a lonely end on New Year’s Day in 1953. Examining Williams’s chart-topping hits while also re-creating days and nights choked in booze and desperation, Hank uncovers the real man beneath the myths, reintroducing us to an American original whose legacy, like a good night at the honkytonk, promises to carry on and on.


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