Working Class Man (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Few rock legends have lived a life as raw, turbulent, and triumphant as Jimmy Barnes — and Working Class Man is the unflinching account of how a boy from the slums of Glasgow, transplanted to the gritty streets of Elizabeth, South Australia, forged himself into one of Australia's most iconic musical figures. This memoir chronicles the white-knuckle decades that followed Barnes's rise to fame with Cold Chisel, pulling back the curtain on a life consumed by addiction, violence, and relentless touring, while capturing the ferocious energy that made him a working-class hero to millions of devoted fans. Written with brutal honesty and a poet's eye for detail, Working Class Man is both a confessional and a celebration — a portrait of survival against extraordinary odds. Barnes illustrates how the demons of his fractured childhood followed him even as stadium crowds roared his name, arguing implicitly that fame without healing is its own kind of prison. A companion volume to his earlier memoir Working Class Boy, this book cements Jimmy Barnes as a storyteller of rare courage, leaving readers to wonder whether redemption, when it finally arrives, can ever fully silence the past.
Author: Jimmy Barnes
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Few rock legends have lived a life as raw, turbulent, and triumphant as Jimmy Barnes — and Working Class Man is the unflinching account of how a boy from the slums of Glasgow, transplanted to the gritty streets of Elizabeth, South Australia, forged himself into one of Australia's most iconic musical figures. This memoir chronicles the white-knuckle decades that followed Barnes's rise to fame with Cold Chisel, pulling back the curtain on a life consumed by addiction, violence, and relentless touring, while capturing the ferocious energy that made him a working-class hero to millions of devoted fans. Written with brutal honesty and a poet's eye for detail, Working Class Man is both a confessional and a celebration — a portrait of survival against extraordinary odds. Barnes illustrates how the demons of his fractured childhood followed him even as stadium crowds roared his name, arguing implicitly that fame without healing is its own kind of prison. A companion volume to his earlier memoir Working Class Boy, this book cements Jimmy Barnes as a storyteller of rare courage, leaving readers to wonder whether redemption, when it finally arrives, can ever fully silence the past.