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American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story by Cynthia True (Paperback, 2005)

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The first and best biography of the cult anti-hero comedian, Bill Hicks. When 32-year-old Bill Hicks died, he had been taking Britain by storm and was on the brink of fame in his own country, 'the United States of Advertising'. Cynthia True has produced a sensitive and compelling biography of the man who brought radical philosophy and rock 'n' roll to the comedy stage. Angry with the establishment, Hicks was a passionate advocate for individual freedom. He was also a man seeking enlightenment, one who believed that life is 'just a ride'. Formerly a vegetarian yoga devotee, Hicks developed a heavy smoking habit and acted as a drugs evangelist as his gigs got more popular and more dangerous. He cleaned up only months before he died from the pancreatic cancer that he had, with unsettling prescience, for years been imagining as an alien sensation in his left side. Petty censorship incensed him; never more so than when he was famously axed from the Letterman show following a tirade of pro-life and Pope digs. Hicks's response was typical: 'Why are people so afraid of jokes?'

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Pan Macmillan
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9780330438063
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Book Title
American Scream: the Bill Hicks Story
Author
Cynthia True
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
272 Pages

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197mm
Item Width
130mm
Item Weight
190g

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Cynthia True
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United Kingdom

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by yd4oet4atkg@del...02 Oct, 2012
Great book about an awesome comic.
I heard that this book was good and I am very interested in Bill Hicks. I like everything about this purchase. The book is very good and sensitively written. I haven't read any books about Bill Hicks before so I have nothing to compare it too, but I really like this one, it gives an in-depth view of the man: his comedy and his life.

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