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'Torment Saint' illuminates the troubled world of Elliott Smith

Written By Unknown on Saturday, October 5, 2013 | 12:11 PM

Through insightful interviews and precise observations, William Todd Schultz brings clarity to the life and tragic death of the gifted songwriter Elliott Smith in the book 'Torment Saint.'



Ten years ago this November singer-songwriter Elliott Smith, then 34, died in an Echo Park bungalow from two knife stabs to the chest. According to William Todd Schultz's "Torment Saint: The Life of Elliott Smith," a clear-eyed and devastating new biography of the gifted and troubled artist, his death, likely a suicide, was inevitable. The only questions were how and when.



via Books - latimes.com http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/features/books/~3/rfjM_iymyIo/la-ca-jc-elliott-smith-20131006,0,4014877.story

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