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ART: Why I Stuck with a Junkie Jazzman

by Laurie Pepper

companion to Straight Life. My life with Art, portrait of a marriage, a Bildungsroman.How a scattered young woman's ambition to do something with her life opened the world for her, led to a legendary book, and gave her man, an artist, a second life.AISE FOR "ART"Forged at the collision point of true art and real life, this brutally honest book is an engrossing journey across the hard countries of love and loss and redemption. It inspires the belief that love can overcome all obstacles and that creative talent knows no bounds. It was impossible for me to put it down.—Michael Connelly, Author of the Harry Bosch series of novels“I was no angel,” Laurie Pepper advises at the start of this stingingly candid memoir, and in truth she is a wonderfully devilish writer, her pen a razor dipped in sulfur, her memory a lead-lined cave from which nothing escapes or goes unexamined. Everyone who knows the skillful craftsmanship she brought to Straight Life, th