# Hellfire

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- Book: [Hellfire](https://www.bookquiver.com/nick-tosches/hellfire) ([Hellfire.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nick-tosches/hellfire.md))
- Authors: [Nick Tosches](https://www.bookquiver.com/nick-tosches)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4192-442-7
- Published: 2015-08-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

The dramatic and tormented life of Jerry Lee Lewis is the most fabled in rock 'n' roll history. Hellfire is a wild, riveting, and beautifully written biography that received universal acclaim on its original publication and is now an American classic. Born in Louisiana to a family legacy of great courage and greater madness, Jerry Lee was torn throughout his life between a harsh Pentecostal God and the Devil of alcohol, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. At twenty-one he recorded 'Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On', which propelled him to stardom. Almost immediately, news of his marriage to his thirteen-year-old cousin all but destroyed his career. Over the next twenty years, Jerry Lee, ever indomitable and ever wild, would rise again as a country star, and then lose it all again to his own inner demons. Hellfire is a brilliant, audacious journey into the soul of a rock 'n' roll legend, and into the soul of rock 'n' roll itself.