A revelatory look at the tumultuous life of a jazz legend and American cultural icon.
Relying on interviews with people who knew her, and new material unearthed in private collections and institutional archives, Bitter Crop --a reference to the Last two words of Strange Fruit , her moving song about lynching--limns Holiday as a powerful, ambitious woman who overcame her flaws to Triumph as a vital figure of American popular music..
During her lifetime and after her death, Billie Holiday was often depicted as a down-on-her-luck junkie severely lacking self-esteem.
He 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.
Salinger--gives us an unconventional portrait of arguably America\'s most eminent jazz singer.
In the first biography of Billie Holiday in more than two decades, Paul Alexander--author of heralded lives of Sylvia Plath and J.
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A revelatory look at the tumultuous life of a jazz legend and American cultural icon
