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Delves into the tragic life of the French singer to explore the impact of her impoverished childhood, her career as a performer, her numerous unhappy attempts at love, and the self-destructive behavior that led her to the world of drugs
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About the Author:
Monique Lange was a novelist, screenwriter, and editor. She was born into a family of intellectuals, which included philosophers Henri Bergson and Emmanuel Berl. A lifelong writer and lover of words, she worked as an editor for La revue de cinéma and the famous literary journal Les Temps modernes. She wrote screenplays for Roberto Rossellini (Vanina Vanini), Henri-Georges Clouzot (La prisonnière), and Vittorio De Seta (L’invitata), among many others. Her novels include Catfish, The Plane Trees, and The Bathing Huts, and in addition to her biography of Piaf she wrote a biography of Jean Cocteau. She died in 1996.
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Text: English, French (translation)
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- PublisherHenry Holt & Co
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0865790248
- ISBN 13 9780865790247
- BindingPaperback
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