{"product_id":"with-billie-9780375406102","title":"With Billie","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Julia Blackburn  an author whose ability to conjure lives from other times and places is so vivid that one suspects she sees ghosts  here is a portrait of a woman whose voice continues to haunt anyone who hears it.  Billie Holidays life is inseparable from an account of her troubles  her addictions  her arrests  and the scandals that would repeatedly put her name in the tabloid headlines of the 1940s and 1950s. Those who knew her learned never to be surprised by what she might do. Her moods and faces were so various that she could seem to be a different woman from one moment to the next. Volatile  unpredictable  Billie Holiday remained  even to her friends  an elusive and perplexing figure.  In With Billie  we hear the voices of those peoplepiano players and dancers  pimps and junkies  lovers and narcs  producers and critics  each recalling intimate stories of the Billie they knew. What emerges is a portrait of a complex  contradictory  enthralling woman  a woman who knew what really mattered to her. Reading With Billie  one is convinced that she has only just left the room but will return shortly.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45118201167925,"sku":"ByrdShop_0375406107","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780375406102.jpg?v=1776102830","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/with-billie-9780375406102","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}