# Pearl

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- Book: [Pearl](https://www.bookquiver.com/ellis-amburn/pearl) ([Pearl.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ellis-amburn/pearl.md))
- Authors: [Ellis Amburn](https://www.bookquiver.com/ellis-amburn)
- Publisher: Sphere
- ISBN: 978-07-5154-037-6
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2007-08-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The singer Janis Joplin's childhood in a backwater Texas town, where her classmates punished her for her individuality, fuelled the compulsion to shock which became her hallmark. This account of the forces that drove her through a short, impulsive life, to her death from a drug overdose at the age of twenty-seven, encompasses her binges, her egotism, her insecurities, and her affairs with figures such as Jim Morrison, Kris Kristofferson and Jimi Hendrix, and many lesbian lovers.