Bibliograph

Wishing on the moon, the life and times of Billie Holiday, Donald Clarke

Type

Label

Wishing on the moon, the life and times of Billie Holiday, Donald Clarke

Language

eng

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Wishing on the moon

Oclc number

30036926

Responsibility statement

Donald Clarke

Sub title

the life and times of Billie Holiday

Summary

A biography of the American jazz singer whose life was changed by drug abuse and alcoholism

Table Of Contents

An African-American nation -- Baltimore -- The point -- Harlem -- The first records, and triumph at the Apollo -- The Teddy Wilson era -- The street that never slept -- On the road with the big bands -- 1937-9 : strange fruit -- The war years -- Triumph and trouble -- The jailbird -- The gangster and the bassist -- The last decade begins -- The last merry-go-round : fun, fights and fame -- Intimations of mortality -- The triumphant decline of Lady Day -- The loneliest girl in the world -- Coda: The lady is an icon

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