Bessie Smith

基本信息

Edited by：Jackie Kay

Publisher：Faber & Faber

Published：18 Feb. 2021

Language：English

Format Paperback：224 pages

ISBN-10 : 0571362923

ISBN-13 : 978-0571362929

Dimensions：129 x 13 x 198 （mm）

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

贝西·史密斯（BESSIE SMITH）于1894年出生于田纳西州。9岁时已成为孤儿，她在街头拐角处唱歌，然后成为巡回演出的大牌。在1923年，她为一家名为Columbia Records的新创业公司录制了第一张唱片。它卖出了780,000册，使她成为明星。史密斯的生活异常艰难：她喝了一品脱的“浴缸杜松子酒”，打了一场猛烈的拳头，花了大笔钱，并与男人和女人发生了热情的爱情。她曾经单枪匹马与库克卢克家族（Ku Klux Klan）战斗。

作为一个年轻的黑人女孩，在格拉斯哥长大，杰基·凯（Jackie Kay）在贝西（Bessie）发现了一个可以识别的人，并且可以将她偶像化。凯在这本非凡的书中融合了传记，小说，诗歌和散文，为人们提供了对非凡生活的着迷。

BESSIE SMITH was born in Tennessee in 1894. Orphaned by the age of nine, she sang on street corners before becoming a big name in travelling shows. In 1923 she made her first recording for a new start-up called Columbia Records. It sold 780,000 copies and made her a star. Smith's life was notoriously difficult: she drank pints of 'bathtub gin', got into violent fist fights, spent huge sums of money and had passionate love affairs with men and women. She once single-handedly fought off a cohort of the Ku Klux Klan.

As a young black girl growing up in Glasgow, Jackie Kay found in Bessie someone with whom she could identify and who she could idolise. In this remarkable book Kay mixes biography, fiction, poetry and prose to create an enthralling account of an extraordinary life.

作者简介

杰姬·凯（Jackie Kay）是苏格兰诗人和小说家，自2016年以来一直是苏格兰国家诗人。她是许多作品的作者，包括 《领养文件》，《 小号》和 《红尘之路》。她获得了无数奖项，还两次入围“苏格兰年度最佳图书奖”。她目前是索尔福德大学的校长，并在格拉斯哥和曼彻斯特之间分配时间。

Jackie Kay is a Scottish poet and novelist, and has been the National Poet of Scotland since 2016. She is the author of a number of works, including The Adoption Papers, Trumpet and Red Dust Road. The recipient of numerous prizes, she was also twice shortlisted for the Scottish Book of the Year Award. She is currently chancellor of the University of Salford, and divides her time between Glasgow and Manchester.