Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story LP - Softcover

"One of the best rock biographies ever. Lewis has had his fingers in nearly every piece of the 20th century's popular-music pie, and so Bragg's biography becomes not just the history of the man but a history of modern American music."--Shelf Awareness

"I loved every amphetamine-laced, whiskey-soaked, gun-shot page of it.--Ann Patchett

"Mesmerizing . . . IRick Bragg illuminates Jerry Lee Lewis's controversial--but brilliant--life and career in this captivating biography."--Parade

"There's plenty of richness in Rick Bragg's retelling of the Killer's life . . . .Bragg, a former reporter for the New York Times, hits all the legendary moments, both high and low . . . Worth reading."--Stephen King, New York Times Book Review

Lewis has found the ideal biographer in Alabaman Rick Bragg, an author and former New York Times writer who understands the texture and cadence of Lewis' life that started in Concordia Parish in eastern Louisiana near the Mississippi River.--Associated Press

"An enthralling look at the birth of rock & roll and the ensuing life of its arguably most colorful exponent."--Entertainment Weekly

"An iconic rocker receives a warm, admiring biography from a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author . . . Throughout, Bragg displays his characteristic frisky prose . . . From a skilled storyteller comes this entertaining, sympathetic story of a life flaring with fire, shuddering with shakin'."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"An epic life deserves an epic narrative, and Pulitzer Prize winner Bragg delivers such with this major work on rock and roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis.--Library Journal

"This is epic Southern storytelling at its most gripping."--Chicago Tribune

"This is Lewis' version of his own story, filtered through Bragg's gift for language and his feel for the South...His Own Story casts one of rock n' roll's outlandish lives in a new light, giving Lewis the voice in words that he always had in the notes."--USA Today, four star review