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.
"From the Hardcover edition.
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