Doghouse Roses
  • Published: 2 September 2002
  • ISBN: 9780099422426
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $32.99

Doghouse Roses

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'A beautiful and moving collection of short stories by one of our greatest songwriters. It reads like a collaboration between Steinbeck and Kerouac and Bukowski. Steve Earle has taken the great American road song and set it to prose' Jay McInerney

Steve Earle is widely regarded as one of the finest narrative songwriters in the world. These stories, peopled with addicts, hitchhikers, singers, Vietnam vets and drug smugglers, reflect the many facets of the man and the hard-fought struggles, defeats and eventual triumphs he has experienced in a career spanning three decades.
  • Published: 2 September 2002
  • ISBN: 9780099422426
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the author

Steve Earle

Steve Earle is a singer-songwriter, actor, activist, and the author of the story collection Doghouse Roses (2002) and I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive (2011).

Steve Earle has released ten critically acclaimed albums since his 1986 debut Guitar Town made him an overnight star. A prolonged struggle with drug addiction resulted in a spell in jail in the early 1990s. Since his recovery, his comeback albums, beginning with the 1995 Grammy-nominated Train a Comin', have all been critical and commercial successes. His latest album is Transcendental Blues. Earle also works on behalf of a number of political and social causes which have been the subjects of his songs for years. He serves as a board member of an organisation that seeks to abolish the death penalty and is also active in anti-landmine and welfare rights movements.

His fiction has been described by Patti Smith as “like a dream you can't shake, offering beauty and remorse, and redemption in spades.”

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Praise for Doghouse Roses

Steve Earle leans hard on his own tough experience as a junkie and jailbird to produce a series of gut-wrenching tales filled with humanity

Time Out

Doghouse Roses is the real thing, a collection of spare, economical and truly compelling tales, as well-crafted as the songs, and just as moving. Earle takes risks; he cares about his characters, and he cares about language. "The Witness" is as well-paced and urgent as any story I have read in the past several years, and would certainly stand its ground alongside the established masters

Scotsman

Heartfelt, romantic, they are thoughtful and genuinely hardbitten. An impressive and engaging debut

Times Literary Supplement

Meticulously crafted character studies that assess and re-assess the human condition...consolidates an already brilliant but tumultuous career. In keeping with another great chronicler of the American male, John Steinbeck

Observer
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