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The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

by Neil Strauss ; Marilyn Manson

ISBN: 0060987464
ISBN-13: 9780060987466
Format: Paperback

Summary

Hard rock's favorite whipping boy's tell-all autobiography is a surprisingly candid and well-written confessional of Marilyn Manson's deprived youth, his depraved teenage years, and how, much like Alice Cooper a generation before him, he turned a variety of childhood traumas to his advantage in constructing a rock & roll persona that audiences could either hate with abandon or adopt as one of their own. Backstage tour descriptions are all you'd expect, from sado-masochistic set-pieces with fans to copious drug use and voodoo dabblings, but there are also the more mundane rituals of battles with the record label to get band-approved songs on the album. Our hero gets himself into some pretty shady moral and ethical situations with fans and friends along the way, leading one to ruminate that while Alice Cooper was detached enough from his persona to spend his days off playing rounds of golf, Manson may have disturbingly swallowed his own nihilistic, against God, religion, and whatever-else-you've-got philosophy hook, line, and sinker. Great fun for teens into their first phase of devil-worship, THE LONG HARD ROAD OUT OF HELL still carries enough venom to scare the wits out of their parents. Which may well be the point.

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Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Regan Books
Published date: 1999
Size: 5.5 x 9 inches
Weight: 1.05 pounds
Pages: 269

Publisher's Notes

From the world's most controversial rock star comes his shocking, confessional and revealing life story. In The Long Hard Road Out of Hell,�Marilyn Manson candidly and vividly recounts his metamorphosis from a frightened Christian schoolboy into the most feared and revered celebrity in America.

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Hardcover - Harpercollins (1998) - from $8.72
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The Long Hard Road Out of Hell [Paperback]

Marilyn Manson; Neil Strauss

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