Bitter Crop - The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year
Verlag | Canongate Books |
Auflage | 2024 |
Seiten | 368 |
Format | 16,1 x 3,3 x 24,1 cm |
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Gewicht | 581 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
EAN | 9781837262410 |
Bestell-Nr | 83726241UA |
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 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 limns Holiday as a powerful, ambitious woman who overcame her flaws to triumph as a vital figure of American popular music.
Rezension:
The unfinished life of Billie Holiday haunts us. In Bitter Crop, Paul Alexander tells her story in a way that could put her soul and our questions to rest GLORIA STEINEM