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Title: Deep in a Dream is a nightmare!
Review: I find this book to be a completely unbalanced look at a man who created a remarkable body of work. It's hard to know how Baker could have possibly found the time to record and perform during all the heroin, rape, arson, removal of dead bodies, marriages, divorces, swindaling, cheating and stealing that Gavin claims happened. And while it is obvious that Baker was a flawed human being, he was also a superb talent -- James Gavin seems to want to take that away from Baker as well. He uncourageously digs up and quotes every unfavorable review he can find from the 50's press that suggests Baker was a hype.Mr. Gavin's book is proof that those who can "do" and those who cannot write fiction about those who can and pass it off on the public as "biography."
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