Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton"Suits Me is the biography of a now notorious jazz musician named Billy Tipton, who grew up as Dorothy Tipton in Oklahoma City and Kansas City but lived as a man from the time she was nineteen until she died at age seventy-four. Billy Tipton's death in Spokane, Washington, made news all over the world, not because he was celebrated as a musician but because the scale of his deception - he had been "married" to five women and had reared several adopted children - and the scarcity of ready explanations endowed the skimpy available facts with the aura of myth." "But locked away in Billy's office closet lay files of clippings and photographs documenting the transformation of Billy from she to he, as well as a legacy of annotated comic routines, musical arrangements, and program notes. These revealed to Diane Wood Middlebrook how Billy scattered clues and riddles night after night about the drag she wore. These hints were so bold that they helped conceal Billy's secrets." "With brio and pathos, Suits Me tells the life story of this brilliant deceiver, who lived and loved in two skins, one of each sex."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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Untreated, hemorrhaging ulcers finally killed him. Billy Lee Tipton was
pronounced dead in the emergency room of Valley General Hospital that
Saturday, never having regained consciousness, leaving a mystery as his most
substantial legacy.
Untreated, hemorrhaging ulcers finally killed him. Billy Lee Tipton was
pronounced dead in the emergency room of Valley General Hospital that
Saturday, never having regained consciousness, leaving a mystery as his most
substantial legacy.
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I had never seen these guys. They said, "Our theme song is 'Sunbonnet Sue' in
the key of E." Well, I couldn't play in the key of E and never heard of "Sunbonnet
Sue," but I played it anyway. Went on the road, played every night in a different ...
I had never seen these guys. They said, "Our theme song is 'Sunbonnet Sue' in
the key of E." Well, I couldn't play in the key of E and never heard of "Sunbonnet
Sue," but I played it anyway. Went on the road, played every night in a different ...
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She never met or spoke to Billy's brother until after Billy's death, and she never
learned of the $5500 check Billy received for the sale of Reggie's house after her
death or, later, of the $3300 Bill Tipton sent after selling a piece of property in ...
She never met or spoke to Billy's brother until after Billy's death, and she never
learned of the $5500 check Billy received for the sale of Reggie's house after her
death or, later, of the $3300 Bill Tipton sent after selling a piece of property in ...
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Reseña de usuario - bookwormteri - LibraryThingWhile I found this book super interesting, I definitely felt the lack of Billy's perspective in this story. An incomplete read without knowing what he was thinking and feeling and his motivation ... Leer reseña completa
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Reseña de usuario - ursula - LibraryThingThis was a very interesting book about Billy Tipton, a musician in the jazz/swing era who was born a woman but passed as a man almost his entire adult life. It's both fascinating and frustrating ... Leer reseña completa
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