Listening to Billie

By Alice Adams

Book Overview

Singing the blues in a smoky New York nightclub like Billie Holiday is 18-year-old Eliza's dream. Instead she lives in the shadow of her famous writer mother and finds herself trapped into marrying... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394410696
• ISBN13: 9780394410692
• Release Date: December 1977
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Coming to Terms with Oneself

I am a fan of Alice Adams. Her books capture the sensibility of a certain type of upper class women and their lives and relationships. In this novel, a woman deals with her self and the relationships she had in her youth through middle age. She comes to terms with not liking in herself what she does not like in others.