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Billie Holiday
Stuart Nicholson
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Description for Billie Holiday
Hardcover. " The best Publisher alive or dead".... C P Snow.Original cloth with very good dustwrapper.
First edition
A biography of the jazz vocalist, Billie Holiday, who died from a drug overdose in 1959. As well as a discussion of her music, this text covers her drug addiction, masochistic promiscuity and alcoholism, and examines the racial prejudice and legal harassment she suffered all her life.
First edition
A biography of the jazz vocalist, Billie Holiday, who died from a drug overdose in 1959. As well as a discussion of her music, this text covers her drug addiction, masochistic promiscuity and alcoholism, and examines the racial prejudice and legal harassment she suffered all her life.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
W&N
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780575056312
SKU
KEX0303911
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Stuart Nicholson
Reissued in stunning new cover, to match the new edition of Nicholson's Billie Holiday'This biography is a model not only of research, but of musical insight' Observer'Just to state that this book is a full account of this splendid lady's life and times barely hints at the depth and detail which the indefatigable Nicholson has unearthed . . . A ... Read more
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