The Wheel of Fortune Author:Edith Piaf One of the most incredible true life stories of our time - the rise from the gutters of Paris to the world's top concert halls of a girl who from birth had all the cards stacked against her. Blindness in childhood, an early life of starvation among pimps & prostitutes, alcoholism, drug addiction, several much publicized love affairs which shock... more »ed even sophisticated Paris. Yet her friendships included Chaplin, Guitry, Eisenhower, Yves Montand, Dietrich, Chevalier, Cocteau & many others. In her amazing life story she spares her readers nothing of the intimate details of a life dogged by misfortune & sin yet spurified by her great integrity as a woman & as a singer. "She sang with love as Michelangelo carved with love...one of the great women of our time." Sven Berlin in the Western Mail.« less