Lady Sings the Blues
- ISBN-10
- 0140067620
- ISBN-13
- 9780140067620
- Series
- Lady Sings the Blues
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts
- Pages
- 199
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1956
- Publisher
- Penguin Mass Market
- Authors
- Billie Holiday, William Dufty
Description
In a poignant, dramatic memoir, Billie Holiday tells not only of her rise to fame as a blues singer, but also of the exploitation and racial prejudice she encountered as well as of her struggle with heroin addiction.
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