Lady Sings the Blues
$25.14
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
3 December 2018
Summary
The bluesy, gutsy, no-holds-barred memoir of jazz legend Billie Holiday.
“I’ve been told that no one sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do. Or the word ‘love’.”
Lady Sings the Blues is the inimitable autobiography of one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century. Born to a single mother in 1915 Baltimore, Billie Holiday had her first run-in with the law at aged 13. But Billie Holiday is no victim. Her memoir tells the story of her life spent in jazz, smoky Harlem clu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241351291 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241351294 |
| Author: | Billie Holiday |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 3 December 2018 |
| Weight: | 148g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 130mm x 12mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
Its value is in its witness to the grinding humiliation of the racism that tainted every moment of her louche life
Its value is in its witness to the grinding humiliation of the racism that tainted every moment of her louche life – John Lahr * London Review of Books *
A wrenchingly authentic account of Holiday’s turbulent trajectory from abused child to jazz genius – Jane Shilling * Daily Mail *
Her troubles are long behind her now. Her genius however, shows no sign of dimming any time soon. – Nick Hornby * Sunday Times *
A searing account of her life as a brilliant artist, a heroin addict, simultaneously worshipped as a siren of sorrow and persecuted by a legal system structured by systemic racism. Booze runs like a glimmering ribbon through these pages - she even makes moonshine from potato peelings while incarcerated - but Holiday emerges as a figure far more nuanced and human than her mythic image. – Guardian * Leslie Jamison *
About The Author
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday was born in 1915. She began singing in jazz clubs in Harlem while still a teenager, never undergoing technical training or even learning to read music. Mainstream success followed with hits like Summertime, Autumn in New York and Strange Fruit. To this day she is still considered by many to be the greatest jazz singer of all time. She died in 1959, aged 44.
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