{"product_id":"billie-holiday-wishing-on-the-moon-paperback","title":"Billie Holiday: Wishing on the Moon - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDonald Clarke\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCertainly no singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than Billie Holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique herself with her autobiography, \u003ci\u003eLady Sings the Blues\u003c\/i\u003e. \"Now, finally, we have a definitive biography,\" said \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e of Donald Clarke's \u003ci\u003eBillie Holiday\u003c\/i\u003e, \"by a deeply compassionate, respectful, and open-minded biographer [whose] portrait embraces every facet of Holiday's paradoxical nature, from her fierceness to her vulnerability, her childlikeness to her innate elegance and amazing strength.\" Clarke was given unrivaled access to a treasure trove of interviews from the 1970s--interviews with those who knew Lady Day from her childhood in the streets and good-time houses of Baltimore through the early days of success in New York and into the years of fame, right up to her tragic decline and death at the age of forty-four. Clarke uses these interviews to separate fact from fiction and, in the words of the \u003ci\u003eSeattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \"finally sets us straight. . .evoking her world in all its anguish, triumph, force and irony.\" \u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e called this \"a thoroughly riveting account of Holiday and her milieu.\" The \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e raved that it \"may be the most thoroughly valuable of the many books on Holiday,\" and Helen Oakley Dance in \u003ci\u003eJazzTimes\u003c\/i\u003e said, \"We should probably have to wait a long time for another life of Billie Holiday to supersede Donald Clarke's achievement.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonald Clarke\u003c\/b\u003e lives in Austin, Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 508\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.13 x 8.16 x 5.54 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 20, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48176452829432,"sku":"9780306811364","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/M0lLdWdTSGVDOERhSHFwblErTTdFQT09.webp?v=1775040454","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/billie-holiday-wishing-on-the-moon-paperback","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}