PAUL C. (pabloguitarist) reviewed Listening to Billie (Penguin Contemporary American Fiction) on + 159 more book reviews
It's the early 1950s, and Billie Holiday makes a dazzling entrance into the Manhattan nightclub where young Eliza Quarles is dreamily preoccupied with her future husband. This is the only time Eliza sees the great blues singer but she keeps Billie's haunting image in her head for years to come.
"The tone is quick, deft, precise, the plot as seductive as gossip." -- Anne Tyler
"The tone is quick, deft, precise, the plot as seductive as gossip." -- Anne Tyler
