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.
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A revelatory look at the tumultuous life of a jazz legend and American cultural icon
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
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ISBN
9781837262410
Publisert
2024-07-04
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Vendor
Canongate Books
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581 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
153 mm
Dybde
30 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
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Product language
Engelsk
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Antall sider
368
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