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A portrait of singer Billie Holiday as seen through the eyes of friends, lovers, fellow musicians, critics, producers, pimps and junkies, narcotics agents, and others, from her Baltimore childhood to her rise to fame and her tragic death.
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3 editions- Other · English · 2006Vintage · 368 pages · 9780375705809
- Other · English · 2005Jonathan Cape · 352 pages · 9780224075893
- Other · English · 2005Pantheon · 368 pages · 9780375406102
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