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Bitter crop : the heartache and triumph of Billie Holiday's last year
Alexander, Paul, 1955-2025
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'Bitter Crop' is an unconventional portrait of arguably America's most eminent jazz singer. Acclaimed biographer Paul Alexander shrewdly focuses on the last year of Billie Holiday's life - with relevant flashbacks to provide context - to evoke and examine the persistent magnificence of her 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.
Main title:
Bitter crop : the heartache and triumph of Billie Holiday's last year / Paul Alexander.
Author:
Alexander, Paul, 1955-, author
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Canongate, 2025.
Collation:
368 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781837262434 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
782.42165782.42165092
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
5281725