NY: Cliff Street Books / Harper Collins, 1999. vg/vg, 259 pages with 16 pages of b+w photos, tight and clean, crease and wear at head and foot of spine, light rubbing to lower corners. Dust jacket has light wear to spine ends and corners in a Brodart protector. . First Edition. (more information)

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HarperEntertainment. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 0060193085 . Light standard rubbing to dustjacket, book is very good and solid. Some light wear skirting along top and bottom edge. Music. Pasadena's premier independent new and used bookstore. ; 1.03 x 9.53 x 6.39 Inches; 272 pages; Country music's award-winning and best-selling recording artist, Merle Haggard, brings us his long-awaited new autobiograp hy, <I> Merle Haggard's My House of Memories</I>--a riveting account of Haggard's extremely turbulent and successful life. Picking up where his 1982 autobiography, <I> Sing Me Back Home,</I> left off, Haggard recounts his earliest childhood memories, revealing previously untold stories about his birth and troubled upbringing in a converted railroad boxcar. He recalls the innocence of the 1950s, when a boy could safely ride the rails with hobos and share their transient camps. He talks about his father's death when Merle was nine and how his childish disobedience soon erupted into full-blown delinquency. <P> In a thrilling narrative, he takes us on several high speed getaways from the California law and straight inside the state's homes for the criminally delinquent. On his nineteenth birthday, we follow him inside San Quentin and read a chilling account about a cellmate who begs Merle to join him in an escape that ultimately ends with the man's death. Haggard also recalls his befriending of Caryl Chessman, the notorious 1950s serial rapist, and the time they shared before Chessman's execution. <P> Having lived a life marked by violence, gambling, and drugs, Merle shares the lessons he learned and how he continues to pay for decades of reckless living. He discloses that after earning more than a hundred million dollars, he's virtually broke. Merle reflects on how he felt at that bittersweet hour seven years ago, as he stood at his wife's bedside during the delivery of their son--and was served bankruptcy papers. And he recalls his family's move into a house so decayed that cattle literally roamed inside. He still lives there, amid improvements, today.<P> Haggard relives the painful memory of the death of his mother, who a year earlier, unbeknownst to him, had written her life story in longhand. He reveals his astonishment at learning of her 1906 covered-wagon journey at age four, from Arkansas to Oklahoma, and of how she had to live underground in an earthen dugout. Merle had never known of his mother's life in the Southwest and the fears and hardships she faced. <P> As one of the industry's most respected artists, Merle Haggard still makes music for music's sake and does it with the enthusiasm of an apprentice. He plays several hours a day, every day, on and off the stage and speaks of the emotional salvation the eight notes of the music scale afford him.<P> <I> My House of Memories</I> captures the triumph of the human spirit through the power of persistence, through the power of love he finally discovered during his fifth marriage, and through the unsurpassed the joy of reentering fatherhood at age fifty-four. It is an exciting and moving account of the tumultuous life of a songwriter, singer, guitarist, and arranger whose words have earned him international renown as the poet of the common man. . (more information)

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New York: HarperCollins - Cliff Street Books, 1999. 259 pages in twenty chapters. Blue boards with black cloth quarter spine and silver lettering with author's signature decorating front cover. First Printing of the First Edition. Haggard recounts his earliest childhood memories, revealing previously untold stories about his birth and troubled upbringing in a converted railroad box car. He recalls the innocence of the 1950's when a boy could safely ride the rails with hobos and share their transient camps. He talks about his father 's death when Merle was nine and how his childish disobedience soon erupted into full blown delinquency. Having lived a life marked by violence, gambling, drugs, and imprisonment, Merle shares the lessons he learned and how he continues to pay for decades of reckless living. He discloses that after earning more than hundred million dollars, he's virtually broke. Merle reflects on how he felt as he stood at his wife's bedside during the delivery of their son and was served bankruptcy papers. This is an exciting and moving account of the tumultuous life of a songwriter, singer, guitarist and arranger whose words have earned him international renown as the poet of the common man. The dust jacket is unclipped and shows a picture of Hagard, guitar in hand in a field of tall yellow grass. A stunnig story. . First Edition Stated. Hard Back. Near Fine/Very Good. 6" x 9 1/2". (more information)

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HarperCollins, 1999. 1st edition.. Hardcover. NF./NF.. no. Memoir of the country music star. B+W photos. Heavy book may require more postage. Hardcover (more information)

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