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The Killer’s Tale: Rick Bragg Examines the Life and Legend of Jerry Lee Lewis

December 29, 2014 by: Frank Etheridge

"One thing that struck me about Jerry Lee,” Rick Bragg recalls from the scores of in-home interviews he conducted over the summers of 2011 and 2012 while crafting his exquisite, exhaustive new biography Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story (Harper/HarperCollins), “while he lay in that bed—his body ravaged, bullet holes in the bedroom wall, his .357 Magnum under the pillow—is that his h...

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