Bibliograph

With Billie, a new look at the unforgettable Lady Day, Julia Blackburn

Type

Label

With Billie, a new look at the unforgettable Lady Day, Julia Blackburn

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

With Billie

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

191952317

Responsibility statement

Julia Blackburn

Sub title

a new look at the unforgettable Lady Day

Summary

Billie Holiday's life is inseparable from an account of her troubles, her addictions, her arrests, and the scandals that would repeatedly put her name in the tabloid headlines of the 1940s and 1950s. Those who knew her learned never to be surprised by what she might do. Her moods and faces were so various that she could seem to be a different woman from one moment to the next. Volatile, unpredictable, Billie Holiday remained, even to her friends, an elusive and perplexing figure

resource.variantTitle

Lady Day

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