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Listening to Billie (Novels & Short Story Collections)

✍ Scribed by Adams, Alice

Book ID
108858262
Publisher
Constable
Year
1978
Tongue
English
Weight
199 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780307798220

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

οΏ½She commands her material so well that we are made to believe that her fictionοΏ½her plotοΏ½is no stranger than our lives.οΏ½οΏ½ --Ms. Magazine
οΏ½
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.

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