Jackie Kay

Bessie Smith

A Poet's Biography of a Blues Legend

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Produktbeschreibung

"Originally published... in Great Britain by Absolute Press, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Bath, in 1997, and subsequently published reat Britian by Faber & Faber Limited, London, in 2021."--Title page verso.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 130mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9780593314272
• ISBN-10: 0593314271
• Artikelnr.: 61659327

Autorenporträt

JACKIE KAY is the author of the memoir Red Dust Road as well as several critically acclaimed poetry collections--including The Adoption Papers (winner of the Scottish Arts Council Book Award), Off Colour (shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize), and Life Mask (a Poetry Book Society Recommendation)--almost all of which were collected in Darling: New & Selected Poems. Her first novel, Trumpet, won the Guardian Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for International Dublin Literary Award. A former National Poet of Scotland, she has also written several plays and children's books. She lives in Manchester, England.

Rezensionen

Jackie Kay's book on Bessie Smith: She has combined biographical information with a total understanding of who Bessie actually WAS. Jackie shows an empathy unusual in a biographer, the writing being enhanced by the fact that its author is also a stellar poet. Biographies don't usually bring the subject to life again. This one did. I finished the book then started it again immediately. Peggy Seeger