A revelatory look at the tumultuous life of a jazz legend and American cultural icon "A book written as only one artist could view another, with insight an...
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0593315901
ISBN-13:
9780593315903
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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9.60 X 6.40 X 1.60 inches
Language
English
A revelatory look at the tumultuous life of a jazz legend and American cultural icon
"A book written as only one artist could view another, with insight and sincere compassion." --Sandra Cisneros, best-selling author of Woman Without Shame In the first biography of Billie Holiday in more than two decades, Paul Alexander--author of heralded lives of Sylvia Plath and J. D. Salinger--gives us an unconventional portrait of arguably America's most eminent jazz singer. He shrewdly focuses on the last year of her life--with relevant flashbacks to provide context--to evoke and examine the persistent magnificence of Holiday's artistry when it was supposed to have declined, in the wake of her drug abuse, relationships with violent men, and run-ins with the law. During her lifetime and after her death, Billie Holiday was often depicted as a down-on-her-luck junkie severely lacking in self-esteem. Relying on interviews with people who knew her, and new material unearthed in private collections and institutional archives, Bitter Crop--a reference to the last two words of Strange Fruit, her moving song about lynching--limns Holiday as a powerful, ambitious woman who overcame her flaws to triumph as a vital figure of American popular music.ISBN-10
:0593315901
ISBN-13
:9780593315903
Publisher
:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date
: 13 Feb, 2024
Category
Sub-Category
Format
:Hardcover
Language
:English
Reading Level
: All
No. of Units
:1
Dimension
: 9.60 X 6.40 X 1.60 inches
Weight
:612 g
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