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University Of Texas Press - Bowie: an illustrated life | maria hesse, fran ruiz

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• David Bowie was a master of artifice and reinvention
• In that same spirit
• Illustrator Maria Hesse and writer Fran Ruiz have created a vivid retelling of the life of David Robert Jones
• From his working-class childhood to glam rock success to superstardom
• Concluding with the final recording sessions after his cancer diagnosis
• Narrated from the rock star's point of view
• Bowie colorfully renders both the personal and the professional turning points in a life marked by evolution and innovation
• We see Bowie facing the sorrow of his brother's mental illness
• Kicking a cocaine habit while other musicians succumbed to deadly overdoses
• Contending with a tumultuous love life