Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead

by Peter Conners

Book Overview

Told against the backdrop of the American landscape of the late '80s to the mid-'90s, Growing Up Dead is the story of Peter Conners's journey from straight-laced suburban kid to touring Deadhead. Peter discovered the Grateful Dead in 1985, at the age of 15, through friends who exchanged bootleg tapes of live Grateful Dead concerts. A teenager living in the suburbs of Rochester, New York, he became exposed to an entirely new way of life, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306817330
• ISBN13: 9780306817335
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"