Bessie Smith by Nick Drake, Jackie Kay

Bessie Smith

Nick Drake, Jackie Kay

96 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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