{"product_id":"haunted-heart-a-biography-of-susannah-mccorkle-9780472032730","title":"Haunted Heart: A Biography of Susannah McCorkle","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"In this comprehensive biography  compiled from meticulous research and interviews with many of McCorkles confidants . . . Dahl reconstructs a career distinguished by great promise and great sadness . . . doing her best to address a large  looming Why? that can never be completely answered.\" New York Times \"A compelling  sympathetic but often chilling view not only of McCorkles complexities but also of the difficult business of music itself and of the widespread always potentially fatal illness now better known as bipolar disorder  which the singer hid from so many  even from herself for many years.\" Newsweek Susannahs life was dark and daunting. Her music was suave and sunny. Both are honored in this remarkably well-researched and constantly revealing keyhole peek into a haunted life that is both chilling and exhilarating. I could not put it down. Rex Reed Susannah McCorkle was a mesmerizing singer with a dark side she hid even from her closest friends. Now  thanks to this probing and courageous biography  we can understand the gut ambition that took her to the top of her field and the turmoil that brought her down. James Gavin  author of Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker Haunted Heart strikingly resembles the woman it describes: it is vivacious  tender  saturnine  industrious  and deeply intelligent. Like Susannahs way with certain ballads  it opens a wound and begins the work of healing it. I am grateful for Linda Dahls diligence and sympathy. Leon Wieseltier Linda Dahl is the author of Stormy Weather: The Music and Lives of a Century of Jazzwomen and Morning Glory: A Biography of Mary Lou Williams. Visit the authors website at www.dahljazz.com.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45650597052469,"sku":"ByrdShop_0472032739","price":248.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780472032730.jpg?v=1781799564","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/haunted-heart-a-biography-of-susannah-mccorkle-9780472032730","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}