Bitter Crop is an unconventional portrait of arguably America’s most eminent jazz singer. Acclaimed biographer Paul Alexander shrewdly focuses on the last year of Billie Holiday’s life – with relevant flashbacks to provide context – to evoke and examine the persistent magnificence of her 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.
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Bitter crop
BiographyPaul Alexander is appearing at the Chipping Campden Literature Festival on Sunday 4th May 2025 (details here).
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Author Paul Alexander Published by Canongate ISBN 9781837262434 EAN 9781837262434 Bic Code DNBF|AVP Cover Paperback
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