Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year by Alexander, Paul
Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year by Alexander, Paul

Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year

A revelatory look at the tumultuous life of a jazz legend and American cultural icon "A book...
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Author: Paul Alexander
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Language: English
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Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year by Alexander, Paul

Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year

$49.17
Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year by Alexander, Paul

Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year

$49.17
Author: Paul Alexander
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
A revelatory look at the tumultuous life of a jazz legend and American cultural icon

"A book written as only one artist could view another, with insight and sincere compassion." --Sandra Cisneros, best-selling author of Woman Without Shame

In the first biography of Billie Holiday in more than two decades, Paul Alexander--author of heralded lives of Sylvia Plath and J. D. Salinger--gives us an unconventional portrait of arguably America's most eminent jazz singer. He shrewdly focuses on the last year of her life--with relevant flashbacks to provide context--to evoke and examine the persistent magnificence of Holiday's artistry when it was supposed to have declined, in the wake of her drug abuse, relationships with violent men, and run-ins with the law.

During her lifetime and after her death, Billie Holiday was often depicted as a down-on-her-luck junkie severely lacking in self-esteem. Relying on interviews with people who knew her, and new material unearthed in private collections and institutional archives, Bitter Crop--a reference to the last two words of Strange Fruit, her moving song about lynching--limns Holiday as a powerful, ambitious woman who overcame her flaws to triumph as a vital figure of American popular music.

Author: Paul Alexander
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/11/2025
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780593312520

About the Author
PAUL ALEXANDER has published eight books, among them Rough Magic, a biography of Sylvia Plath, and Salinger, a biography of J. D. Salinger that was the basis of a documentary that appeared on American Masters on PBS, Netflix, and HBO. His nonfiction has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Newsday, New York, The Guardian, The Nation, The Washington Post, and Rolling Stone. He teaches at Hunter College in New York.
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