LOWSIDE OF THE ROAD: A LIFE OF TOM WAITS (FABER SOCIAL)

This book spans Tom Waits' extraordinary 40-year career, from Closing Time to Orphans. Waits is a chameleonic survivor who's achieved long-term success while retaining cult credibility and outsider mystique. From his perilous "jazzbo" years in '70s Los Angeles to the multiple-Grammy winner of recent years - by way of such shape-shifting '80s albums as Swordfishtrombones - this biography charts Waits' life step-by-step and album-by-album. Based on a combination of research and critical insight, this is an investigation of a notoriously private artist and performer.