Body count

By Francie Schwartz

Book Overview

Commemorative special edition of the notorious autobiography of Francie Schwartz, first published by Rolling Stone's Straight Arrow Books in 1972. Most controversial for Chapter 8, entitled, "Don't... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Unknown Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0006WBSVC
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Pyramid Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Fascinating and Quite Poetic Novella

The author's voice is many things; elusive, straight-talking, defiant, bittersweet. Schwartz, like the story she tells, is clearly many-faceted; 'Body Count' remains with you long after the first read, thus you will return to try and puzzle out its meanings. That Schwartz loves life is abundantly clear. She is also a hard nut to crack. Anyone wanting to know of the fault-lines which began to separate the '60s generation' of America from their parents - and each other - should read this book, told by a remarkable and gifted woman who refused to slip through the cracks and who has stories to tell which the un-generous may envy.

Honesty *is* the best policy

This book is a document of its time, letting the reader go inside the heart and mind of a fascinating twentysomething woman of the 60s. Yes, she "slept with" a number of men, that was before AIDS, before the Feminist Revolution of 1972, even before Paul McCartney became a household word. There was such a time.As the Village Voice raved in 1972, when BC first came out, "A ball was had by all."This reader's teeth hurt when I read her description of her nervous breakdown in 1967. But in context, it was the earliest humorous depiction of a visit to the cracker factory I could find.For anyone interested in what it was really like to live the media myth of the Sixties, this is your book. She does it in less than 120 pages, too!Brava

Self portrait of her era

Ms. Schwartz doesn't hold back in her brutally honest account of her choices and lifestyle in BODY COUNT. While McCartney fans might not like her view of Paul, there are more chapters then the one that focuses on him.It is a book for the "completest" Beatle collector but also a great read of a woman's ride through the 60's.

Skillful writing that renders McCARTNEY side-bar status.

But that's exactly what the author accomplishes; admittedly, I originally purchased the book as a Beatle fan and historian; however, I found myself just as interested in her Clifford Beers-ian activisim of mental institutions . An inspiring Rasputin-like quality that not only must have actualized the author's character, but makes a reader fortified, as well. Author! Author!

Loved this book!

Brutally honest, engaging, and this author has a gift with descriptive phrases. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and the insights into the Beatles and Paul McCartney are invaluable. To read about someone who was right there, in the thick of things, history in the making. Women and men will both enjoy this book.