Synopsis
Valaida Snow was born in 1904 in Tennessee to parents who were borderline middle class at a time when most African-Americans were quite the opposite. She learnt piano, violin, cello, mandolin, harp and clarinet under her mother's tutelage and made her first professional appearance in 1920. She left America for the Far East in 1926 as a member of the Jack Carter Orchestra. In the thirties she really hit her stride and became a star, both at home and abroad. She lived large, her charismatic energy and versatility given shape by her classy style and her exquisite clothes. She became a legend, and the stories of bigamy, bisexuality and drugs began to spread. She was imprisoned by the Nazis in Scandinavia and spent the last years of her life in mysterious circumstances. This is a novel with an incredible sense of time and place and a real feel for its subject's colourful and gripping life.
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À propos de l'auteur
Candace Allen received her BA from Harvard before attending the New York University School of Film and Television, becoming the first African-American female member of the Directors Guild of America. She has been an assistant director, a screenwriter and now a novelist.
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