With Billie: A New Look at the Unforgettable Lady Day
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (748 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B009C696QM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 486 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Each person offers a unique perspective of Holiday, from girls who attended reform school with her to fellow musicians and boyfriends who chronicle the world of prostitution and drug use in which Holiday was immersed. From Publishers Weekly Piecing together interviews with more than 150 people who knew Billie Holiday, Blackburn creates a biography that at times surges with energy. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Blackburn, author of several books, including Old Man Goya, begins by recalling her first experience with Holiday's music, but quickly steps aside, allowing the interviewees' stories to speak for themselves. The one thing agreed upon
Those who knew her learned never to be surprised by what she might do. Volatile, unpredictable, Billie Holiday remained, even to her friends, an elusive and perplexing figure.In With Billie, we hear the voices of those people–piano players and dancers, pimps and junkies, lovers and narcs, producers and critics, each recalling intimate stories of the Billie they knew. What emerges is a portrait of a complex, contradictory, enthralling woman, a woman who knew what really mattered to her. Reading With Billie, one is convinced that she has only just left the room but will return shortly.. Her moods and faces were so various that she could seem to be a different woman from one moment to the next. From Julia Blackburn, an author whose ability to conjure lives from other times and places is so vivid that one suspects she sees ghosts, here is a po
American Express said Very interesting. Still wondering what the complete truth of Billie Holiday and her the men in her life. Seems everyone remembers the same thing different.. Four Stars What a tragic life, but an unforgetable voice.. A Good Book Woo That deserves a good review. A couple reviews posted on here focus on Billie Holliday and her lifestyle, it puzzles me why they would even read the book, if you hated the woman so much -- nevertheless, they insisted on sharing their opinion of the person, not the book --so a lot of negative comments that aren't deserved get heaped onto the book --First off, I don't know if you can fully appreciate this book