Listening to Billie |
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Author:
| Adams, Alice |
ISBN: | 978-1-299-03002-2 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2011 |
Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Imprint: | Vintage |
Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $45.00 |
Book Description:
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"She commands her material so well that we are made to believe that her fiction--her plot--is no stranger than our lives." --"Ms. Magazine" " " "Listening to Billie" is a brilliant portrait of a contemporary woman adventurously, decisively embarked on her own life. We first glimpse Eliza Hamilton Quarles as a blonde boarding-school student, sitting in a sophisticated New York club, listening to Billie Holiday. She is on the brink of her marriage to her older,...
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"She commands her material so well that we are made to believe that her fiction--her plot--is no stranger than our lives." --"Ms. Magazine"
" "
"Listening to Billie" is a brilliant portrait of a contemporary woman adventurously, decisively embarked on her own life.
We first glimpse Eliza Hamilton Quarles as a blonde boarding-school student, sitting in a sophisticated New York club, listening to Billie Holiday. She is on the brink of her marriage to her older, worldly date. Twenty years later, a mother, divorced, she, tentatively begins a new life, with new lovers, new interests, new strength, even a new, more comfortable identity.