Paul Alexander
Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year
Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year
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Bitter Crop is a captivating portrait of Billie Holiday, challenging the common perception of her as a down-on-her-luck junkie. It explores her life and artistry, highlighting her triumphs over flaws.
Format: Hardback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 04 July 2024
Publisher: Canongate Books
A SUNDAY TIMES BEST MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 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.
Weight: 578g
Dimension: 242 x 160 x 34 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781837262410
Edition number: Main
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