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Loading... The Wheel of Fortune: The Autobiography of Edith Piaf (edition 2004)by Edith Piaf (Author), Andree Masoin de Virton (Translator), Nina Rootes (Translator), Jean Cocteau (Introduction)
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Edith Piaf's life is almost as famous as her work. From her birth (which she liked to tell people was in the Parisian streets, her mother shielded by two gendarmes) to her death (when her husband allegedly drove her corpse from the Cannes hospital where she died to her flat, lest her fans think that she had abandoned Paris) her life story was a rags-to-riches tale like no other. A street singer discovered by the nightclub owner who gave her the stage name Piaf (Sparrow), she rose to become a national heroine. Friends with Charlie Chaplin, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jean Cocteau, Maurice Chevalier, and Marlene Dietrich, she was also at various times chief suspect for the murder of her mentor, an alcoholic and a drug addict. But she always seemed to embody, and still does, something of the spirit of Paris. Following her death in 1963, 40,000 people descended on Pere Lachaise Cemetery for her funeral, and, 40 years on, millions remain fans of her music. No library descriptions found. |
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Sadly, this volume left me equally unsatisfied. It is superficial and sanitised. I cannot say I learned all that much about the woman from either the movie or the autobiography. It has made me curious about the story behind the story, so I've borrowed a biography from the library. I'm hoping it will prove more enlightening. ( )