Da Capo Press
Price: $26.00
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JAMES SULLIVAN
teaches us
Seven Dirty Words:
The Life and Crimes of George Carlin
Harvard Book Store is excited to present local music and culture critic JAMES SULLIVAN as he discusses the life of one of the most revered alternative comics of recent memory. His new biography of George Carlin, Seven Dirty Words, is described by Booklist as "An excellent account of the life and work of an important and greatly missed artist." In Seven Dirty Words, Sullivan tells the story of Alternative America from the 1950s to the present, from the singular vantage point of George Carlin, the Catholic boy for whom nothing was sacred. A critical biography, Seven Dirty Words examines Carlin’s body of work as it pertained to its cultural times and the man who created it, from his early days as a more-or-less conventional comedian to his stunning transformation into the subversive comedic voice of the emerging counterculture. Sullivan also chronicles Carlin’s struggles with censorship and drugs, as well as the full-blown renaissance he experienced in the 1990s, both personally and professionally, when he became an elder statesman to a younger generation of comics who revered him. Seven Dirty Words is nothing less than the definitive biography of an American master who changed the world, and also a work of cultural commentary which frames George Carlin’s extraordinary legacy. "Sullivan dissects the comedian\\\'s classic iconoclastic routines, probes his working methods, and successfully captures his rocketlike ascent to fame from night clubs and the 1960s comedic cauldron of Greenwich Village to television acclaim, controversy, and creative conflicts." —Publishers Weekly
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