Jerry Lee Lewis: his own story - Tapa dura

"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

[Jerry Lee Lewis] is quite simply one of the best books about rock and roll ever...Rick Bragg has turned it into literature, fitting in somewhere between William Faulkner and Jim Thompson.--Vintage Guitar Magazine

"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

"It's Jerry Lee Lewis's unrepentant outrageousness that makes his life and this book irresistible."--Wall Street Journal

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

"No writer is better suited than Rick Bragg to tell Lewis's story. The result is a biography with the memorable language and narrative drive we expect only from the finest novels . . . the best book on rock and roll I have ever read."--Ron Rash, author of Serena

"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)