Hank: The Short Life and Long Country Road of Hank Williams [Paperback]

A compassionate yet clear-eyed ( A timely biography&Ribowsky has taken on a truly harrowing life. A new biography that exhumes the strange case of the poet and the peckerwood&[ A compassionate yet clear-eyed study of the iconic country star&Its to [Ribowskys] credit that he gets as close to Williams as any writer could&Hank Williams was a tortured poet who died before most Americans today were born, but hell outlive us all. With such a legendary figure, this book succeeds in painting a seemingly more realistic picture of [Williamss] life&The greatest biography yet. A sturdy biography of the unsteady icon of outlaw country avant la lettre&Ribowsky covers the details of Williams untidy personal life without undue sensationalism&[A] decidedly warts-and-all portrait of a man more revered than listened to these days. Its not every 29-year-old who can pack enough into a life to warrant a 500-page biography?and a good one at that. Entertaining&Ribowsky is an engaging storyteller, and he tells Williams story with such verve and humor&that Williams and his music come alive.