- Published: 3 December 2018
- ISBN: 9780241351291
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 192
- RRP: $22.99
Lady Sings the Blues
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- Published: 3 December 2018
- ISBN: 9780241351291
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 192
- RRP: $22.99
Its value is in its witness to the grinding humiliation of the racism that tainted every moment of her louche life
John Lahr, London Review of Books
A wrenchingly authentic account of Holiday's turbulent trajectory from abused child to jazz genius
Jane Shilling, Daily Mail
Her troubles are long behind her now. Her genius however, shows no sign of dimming any time soon.
Nick Hornby, Sunday Times
A searing account of her life as a brilliant artist, a heroin addict, simultaneously worshipped as a siren of sorrow and persecuted by a legal system structured by systemic racism. Booze runs like a glimmering ribbon through these pages - she even makes moonshine from potato peelings while incarcerated - but Holiday emerges as a figure far more nuanced and human than her mythic image.
Guardian, Leslie Jamison