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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During Dorothy Tipton ' s childhood , the young Ralph Ellison lived about six
blocks away . Born the same year as Dorothy , Ellison would go on to become an
eminent writer , celebrating the life of East Second Street in his memoir Shadow ...
During Dorothy Tipton ' s childhood , the young Ralph Ellison lived about six
blocks away . Born the same year as Dorothy , Ellison would go on to become an
eminent writer , celebrating the life of East Second Street in his memoir Shadow ...
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And he and Billy were also struggling young people — that was the crux of the
matter for Clarence , who avoided applying a pronoun to Billy . “ I never thought
of Billy as nothing but kind of like me , a teenager like me who was just trying to
get ...
And he and Billy were also struggling young people — that was the crux of the
matter for Clarence , who avoided applying a pronoun to Billy . “ I never thought
of Billy as nothing but kind of like me , a teenager like me who was just trying to
get ...
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... 6 Western Swingbillies , 91 , 103 Whiteman , Paul , 63 “ Whispering , ” ( song ) ,
110 Whitt , Wayne “ Tiny , " 102 – 3 , 105 Williams , Mary Lou , 39 , 40 , 41 , 80 ,
184 “ Yesterdays ” ( song ) , 151 Young , Gig , 69 Young , Lester , 26 , 41 Young ...
... 6 Western Swingbillies , 91 , 103 Whiteman , Paul , 63 “ Whispering , ” ( song ) ,
110 Whitt , Wayne “ Tiny , " 102 – 3 , 105 Williams , Mary Lou , 39 , 40 , 41 , 80 ,
184 “ Yesterdays ” ( song ) , 151 Young , Gig , 69 Young , Lester , 26 , 41 Young ...
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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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Información bibliográfica
| Título | Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton A Peter Davison book |
| Autor | Diane Wood Middlebrook |
| Colaborador | Diane Wood Middlebrook |
| Edición | ilustrada, anotada |
| Editor | Houghton Mifflin, 1998 |
| Procedencia del original | la Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 14 May 2010 |
| ISBN | 0395654890, 9780395654897 |
| N.º de páginas | 326 páginas |
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