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Wishing on the Moon

The Life and Times of Billie Holiday

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Wishing on the Moon

By: Donald Clarke
Narrated by: Anna Fields
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No singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than jazz legend Billie Holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique herself with her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues - and this authentic biography sets the record straight. Donald Clarke was given unrivaled access to a treasure trove of interviews from the 1970s with those who knew Lady Day in all stages of her short, tragic life - from her childhood in the streets and good-time houses of Baltimore, through the early days of success in New York and the years of fame, to her tragic decline and death at the age of 44. This biography separates fact from fiction to reveal the true Billie Holiday.

©1994 Donald Clarke (P)1997 Blackstone Audiobooks
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Critic Reviews

"A thoroughly riveting account of Holiday and her milieu." ( New York Newsday)
"May be the most thoroughly valuable of the many books on Holiday." ( The New York Times Book Review)
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