9780375406102
With Billie: A New Look At The Unforgettable Lady Day
Julia Blackburn
ISBN 13: 9780375406102
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Hardcover
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From Julia Blackburn, an author whose ability to conjure lives from other times and places is so vivid that one suspects she sees ghosts, here is a portrait of a woman whose voice continues to haunt anyone who hears it.
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.
In With Billie, we hear the voices of those people–piano players and dancers, pimps and junkies, lovers and narcs, producers and critics, each recalling intimate stories of the Billie they knew. What emerges is a portrait of a complex, contradictory, enthralling woman, a woman who knew what really mattered to her. Reading With Billie, one is convinced that she has only just left the room but will return shortly.
Review:
"[T]he first clear evocation..of the world from which Billie emerged and in which she lived....[T]his book is invaluable...."
Literary Review, 04/30/2005
Review:"[A] compelling and intelligent book...."
Robert Christgau, Nation, 06/27/2005
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