Janis Joplin - A different kind of person and only a different kind of book could bring her back to life the way she really was. It tells a story as raw and honest as her voice, as gut-shaking as her songs, as vivid as her memory. It is by the beautiful woman who was her lover and fellow drug addict and there is nothing pretty about it, just the truth, sordid, ugly, yet strangely, stubbornly beautiful.