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by: Billie Holiday, William Dufty See Larger Image Used Price: $0.01 Third Party New Price: $53.99 Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 790 EAN: 9780140067620 ISBN: 0140067620 Label: Penguin (Non-Classics) Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics) Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 208 Publication Date: March 06, 1984 Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) Sales Rank: 447963 Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics) Related Items: Billie Holiday: Wishing on the Moon Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday Fat City (California Fiction) Billie Holiday - Lady Sings The Blues Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday see more Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - A compelling and unvarnished autobiography While Billie Holiday had a co-author on this one, the latter thankfully must have served mostly as "scribe and editor," because I could really feel what Billie felt and saw what she saw during her career. The book is well-done and reads like a great novel. Billie Holiday was a hugely popular, incredibly talented and beautiful, black blues vocalist and club entertainer, often attached to big bands, traveling the nation predominently during the 40s and 50s. In her own words, you'll hear ... Read More Rating: - inaccurate but honest. I just finished reading this book and lstened to the 1956 recording of billie's concert at Carnagie hall. She i so honest about her drug use it breaks your heart, Oh, if only she had lived today maybe she woul dhave liked herslf more. I love Billie Holiday and you wil to after readign this book Rating: - Put back this autobiography within the context of its time Long before celebrity confessions in magazines such as People Weekly, and when a pecadillo we'd find trivial today could still kill a career, it wasn't expected that a celebrity would ever tell the full truth about his/her private life. In Lady Day's time, almost all biographies were mere collections of colorful anecdotes and moral tales; true or not, few people really cared as long as they were entertaining. Anyhow, most readers would just shrug and give the book the benefit of the doubt, and enjoy ... Read More Rating: - brilliant This is everything Aretha Franklin's autobiography should have been but wasn't. It is brutally frank, almost scary in its honesty. Nothing is glossed over, including her relationships with men ( and women ) her heroin addiction and her experiences with sexism and racism , both in and out of the music industry. I read this book in one weekend, I just couldn't put it down. Rating: - Glimpse into a unique life Other reviewers have made the case that this autobiography is less than accurate. That may be true however I believe the book captures the spirit of Billie Holiday as well as the tenor of the times in which she lived and consequently it is an important and very interesting book. The tragedy surrounding Holiday's life and struggle with addiction is well known and yet here it is dealt with in such a gripping and personal way that the story is moving and emotionally wrenching. Billie Holiday ... Read More see more Browse for similar items by category: Composers & Musicians - Arts & Literature - Biographies & Memoirs - Subjects - Books - General Composers & Musicians - Arts & Literature - Biographies & Memoirs - Subjects - Books - General AAS Arts & Literature - Biographies & Memoirs - Subjects - Books - Entertainers Arts & Literature - Biographies & Memoirs - Subjects - Books - General AAS Specific Groups - Biographies & Memoirs - Subjects - Books - Women