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In Search of Billie Holiday
One World
May 2002
On Sale: April 30, 2002
Featuring: Billie Holliday
256 pages
ISBN: 0345449738
EAN: 9780345449733
Trade Size (reprint)
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Non-Fiction Biography
More than four decades after her death, Billie Holiday
remains one of the most gifted artists of our time–and also
one of the most elusive. Because of who she was and how she
chose to live her life, Lady Day has been the subject of
both intense adoration and wildly distorted legends. Now at
last, Farah Jasmine Griffin, a writer of intellectual
authority and superb literary gifts, liberates Billie
Holiday from the mythology that has obscured both her life
and her art. An intimate meditation on Holiday’s place in American
culture and history, If You Can’t Be Free, Be A Mystery
reveals Lady Day in all her complexity, humor and pain–a
true jazz virtuoso whose passion and originality made every
song she sang hers forever. Celebrated by poets, revered by
recording artists from Frank Sinatra to Macy Gray, Billie
Holiday is more popular and influential today than ever
before. Now, thanks to this marvelous book, Holiday’s many
fans can finally understand the singer and the woman they love.
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