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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was such stuff as songs were made of , but marriages needed firmer ground , and
Billy ' s desire to pass as a married man placed the relationship on a fault line .
What June alone knew could always be used against him . In any case , when ...
was such stuff as songs were made of , but marriages needed firmer ground , and
Billy ' s desire to pass as a married man placed the relationship on a fault line .
What June alone knew could always be used against him . In any case , when ...
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He was married to June first , though I use the term “ married " loosely . Then
Betty , a very attractive blonde , a buxom thing . Dolly Parton could have been
Betty ' s clone ! Yet I cannot truthfully tell you that I ever saw Billy demonstrate
affection ...
He was married to June first , though I use the term “ married " loosely . Then
Betty , a very attractive blonde , a buxom thing . Dolly Parton could have been
Betty ' s clone ! Yet I cannot truthfully tell you that I ever saw Billy demonstrate
affection ...
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Quite possibly , this marriage was legal in the state of Idaho , and by extension ,
in the state of Washington . A frontier attitude skeptical of lawyering was evident
in the Idaho Code , which held that couples were legally married if they said they
...
Quite possibly , this marriage was legal in the state of Idaho , and by extension ,
in the state of Washington . A frontier attitude skeptical of lawyering was evident
in the Idaho Code , which held that couples were legally married if they said they
...
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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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