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Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year -- Paul Alexander, Hardcover Don Jose Ruiz and Tommy (Philip McKeon) losesA revelatory look at the tumultuous life of a jazz legend and American cultural icon In the first biography of Billie Holiday in more than two decades, Paul Alexander author of heralded lives of Sylvia Plath and J. D. Salinger gives us an unconventional portrait of arguably America's most eminent jazz singer. He shrewdly focuses on the last year of her life with relevant flashbacks to provide context to evoke and examine the persistent magnificence of