Suits Me - Couverture souple

Middlebrook, Diane Wood

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0395957893 ISBN 13 : 9780395957899

Editeur : Mariner Books, 1999

Synopsis

The jazz pianist Billy Tipton was born in Oklahoma City as Dorothy Tipton, but almost nobody knew the truth until the day he died, in Spokane in 1989. Over a fifty-year performing career, Billy Tipton fooled nearly everyone, including Duke Ellington and Norma Teagarden, five successive "wives" with whom Billy lived as a man, and three children who he "fathered." As Billy Tipton herself said, "Some people might think I'm a freak or a hermaphrodite. I'm not. I'm a normal person. This has been my choice." This jazz-era biography evokes the rich popular-music history of the Great Depression and reads like a detective story.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Diane Wood Middlebrook is the author of several volumes of poetry and criticism as well as the prizewinning bestseller Anne Sexton: A Biography. The recipient of many fellowships and awards, she is a professor emeritus at Stanford University, where she has also served as the director of the center for research on women.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0395957893
• ISBN 13: 9780395957899
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 348
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