Growing up as Warren Zevon’s daughter was no bed of roses. Nor was being his wife.

Both perspectives emerge in “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon,” ($26.95, Harper Collins), released this month.

The book, by the late rocker’s ex-wife, Crystal Zevon, is a warts-and-all look at a man known for dark ditties such as “Werewolves of London,” “Excitable Boy,” and “Poor Pitiful Me.” Before his death, Zevon urged his ex to write the book, which is narrated by her and draws on his journals, as well as interviews with Zevon friends Bruce Springsteen, author Carl Hiaasen and others.

Ariel Zevon, 30, who is pictured in and quoted throughout the book, hasn’t read it.

“I don’t know that I want to, from a personal place. I know that he asked her to write everything and she did. She wrote most of the book when she was living in our house. I’ve certainly heard bits and pieces of it and read bits and pieces and thought they were good.

“It’s just really hard for me to separate myself from it, objectively,” said Ariel Zevon.

Asked if her father was a good dad, she paused and said: “He became one.”