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David Margolick

Auteur van Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song

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Essentially a long, sophisticated book report on the most important song in American history. Margolick has done his homework but that's about all. There's very little soul here, about how the song feels, how it is structured, how it has had the effect it has other than being about lynching. I know that's difficult ("dancing about architecture and whatnot. Look it up) but I figure that's part of compiling a "biography of a song?"
 
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Smokler | 3 andere besprekingen | Jan 3, 2021 |
How much a song can do to bring something out into the open! This song and its fascinating history also make for a deeper understanding of Billie Holliday and her times.
 
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dbsovereign | 3 andere besprekingen | Jan 26, 2016 |
I read this biography of John Horne Burns because I just read his most successful novel, THE GALLERY, which was considered the best novel of World War 2 or at least until Norman Mailer and Joseph Heller produced their tomes on the war. Burns' life was a sad one. He seemed to be mostly unfulfilled. He wrote one great novel that is still in print but the rest were either unpublishable or trash. He was a homosexual during a period when that was considered inappropriate. His homosexuality takes up much of this book. What I didn't like about the book was that it was a stringing together of his comments, letters and writings which doesn't make for a great story. Nonetheless I did finish the book which says something.… (meer)
 
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SigmundFraud | Aug 19, 2014 |
A book that could elucidate this time in American history to my grandchildren.
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Elleneer | 6 andere besprekingen | May 28, 2014 |

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