A Misfit's Manifesto: The Sociological Memoir of a Rock & Roll Heart
- ISBN-10
- 0813540542
- ISBN-13
- 9780813540542
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 387
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Author
- Donna Gaines
Description
Gaines is a self-described "bourbon-guzzling, pill-popping, penis-addicted, workaholic, tattooed Jew" with a Ph.D. and a pistol permit. "A Misfit's Manifesto" is about living with the contradictions. This is how she did it, and found God in all the unlikely places--like Ramones songs.
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