John Lennon: The Life (119 page)

PHILIP NORMAN
is an award-winning novelist and biographer who, in 1969–70, was assigned to cover from the inside the breakup of the Beatles’ own business utopia, Apple Corps. He is the author of
Shout! The Beatles in Their Generation, Rave On: The Biography of Buddy Holly,
and many other books. He lives in London.

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FICTION

Slip on a Fat Lady

Plumridge

Wild Thing

The Skaters’ Waltz

Words of Love

Everyone’s Gone to the Moon

BIOGRAPHY AND JOURNALISM

The Stones

The Road Goes On Forever

Tilt the Hourglass and Begin Again

Your Walrus Hurt the One You Love

Awful Moments

Pieces of Hate

The Age of Parody

The Life and Good Times of the Rolling Stones

Elton John

Days in the Life: John Lennon Remembered

Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation

Rave On: The Biography of Buddy Holly

PLAYS

The Man That Got Away

Words of Love

Jacket design by Allison Saltzman

Jacket photograph: John Lennon in New York City, 1974 © Bob Gruen

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JOHN LENNON: THE LIFE
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Mobipocket Reader September 2008 ISBN 978-0-06-173118-1

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