Going down with Janis describes hard drinking, hard druging part of her personality, the mask, with just glimpses of something deeper beneath. Although it is well written, descriptive, at moments maybe even too descriptive, with humor, honesty and a real affection for Janis it leaves a very bitter afetertaste. It is a very brave portrait of an 4/5(34). Going down with Janis Paperback – January 1, by Peggy Caserta (Author) › Visit Amazon's Peggy Caserta Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author. Peggy Caserta (Author) out of 5 stars 34 ratings.4/5(34). · This book published just a few years after singer Janis Joplin's death of an overdose of heroin is by Peggy Caserta as told to Dan Knapp. Peggy was a former lesbian lover of Ms. Joplin. The expression, play hard, die young applies here/5.
Going Down With Janis (Janis Joplin's Intimate Story) by Caserta, Peggy; Knapp, Dan and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at www.doorway.ru I have a feeling, though, that you won't enjoy those books half as much as you will Going Down with Janis by Peggy Caserta (as told to Dan Knapp). This was my first adult summer book. I've got a little story about that. Imagine the middle of June of High noon. The burning immediacy of Peggy Caserta's "Going Down with Janis" contrasts perfectly with the cool control of Alice Echol's 'scars of Sweet Paradise" on the same topic but the book is not for the squeamish. This portrait of a woman's take on the Love Generation makes uncomfortable reading firstly concerning the men in the book with the curious.
Peggy Caserta published two books after the death of her lover, Janis Joplin. The first book was ghostwritten and was titled ‘Going Down With Janis’ while the second came decades after the first and in a bid to clear up the information from the first book which put her in a bad light, she wrote ‘I Ran Into Some Trouble’. Going down with Janis describes hard drinking, hard druging part of her personality, the mask, with just glimpses of something deeper beneath. Although it is well written, descriptive, at moments maybe even too descriptive, with humor, honesty and a real affection for Janis it leaves a very bitter afetertaste. Three years later, Caserta and ghostwriter Dan Knapp released a memoir titled Going Down with Janis, which tastefully proclaimed itself to be “A Raw and Scathing Portrait of Janis Joplin by Her.
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