BILLIE HOLIDAY: WISHING ON THE MOON
Book ID/图书代码： 06820004B00657
English Summary/英文概要： Based on unrivaled access to archival interviews with those who knew her at every stage of her life, the most revealing biography of the incomparable Lady Day.
Certainly no singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than Billie Holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique herself with her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues. "Now, finally, we have a definitive biography," said Booklist of Donald Clarke’s Billie Holiday, "by a deeply compassionate, respectful, and open-minded biographer [whose] portrait embraces every facet of Holiday’s paradoxical nature, from her fierceness to her vulnerability, her childlikeness to her innate elegance and amazing strength." Clarke was given unrivaled access to a treasure trove of interviews from the 1970’s--interviews with those who knew Lady Day from her childhood in the streets and good-time houses of Baltimore through the early days of success in New York and into the years of fame, right up to her tragic decline and death at the age of forty-four. Clarke uses these interviews to separate fact from fiction and, in the words of the Seattle Times, "finally sets us straight...evoking her world in all its anguish, triumph, force and irony." Newsday called this "a thoroughly riveting account of Holiday and her milieu." The New York Times raved that it "may be the most thoroughly valuable of the many books on Holiday," and Helen Oakley Dance in JazzTimes said, "We should probably have to wait a long time for another life of Billie Holiday to supersede Donald Clarke’s achievement."
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 比莉-荷丽黛又称“黛女士”， 是美国著名的蓝调歌手。 她出生于巴尔的摩，后到纽约，成为大明星。但年仅44岁就悲剧性地死去。她的一生笼罩着不少神秘光彩和误解，部分原因是她写过一本增加了神奇性的自传。 作者采访了许多当年熟悉她的人，仔细地将真情实事与虚构故事区分开来，终于写成这本传记。
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About the Author/作者介绍： Donald Clarke lives with his wife and son in Austin, Texas.
Format:TRADE PAPERBACK
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