Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay

Bessie Smith

Jackie Kay

224 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction biography music emotional reflective medium-paced
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As a young black girl growing up in Glasgow, Jackie Kay found in Bessie Smith someone with whom she could identify and idolize. Her fascinating and extraordinary Outline mixes fact and fiction, poetry and prose as she relates the tempestuous life ...

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3.88
based on 27 reviews

Moods

informative: 100%

reflective: 80%

sad: 60%

emotional: 40%

inspiring: 20%


Pace

40% of readers chose medium
60% of readers chose slow
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slow

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