Suits Me: Double Life of Billy Tipton by Middlebrook, Diane Wood

Hardback. Very Good.

Hardback. Good.

Virago, 1998. Hardcover. Used: Acceptable. Hardback with D/J in good condition. 1998 1st edition Virago. Billy Tipton was a jazz performer who played in clubs throughout the Midwest of the US for nearly 50 years. Tipton never made the big time as a musician and ended up working as a booking agent in Spokane, Washington. Only with Tipton's death in 1989 was it revealed that the five-times-married father of three boys was biologically female. Diane Wood Middlebrook's biography describes the transformation of Dorothy Tipton, a white Oklahoman who was not allowed to play jazz because she was a girl, into Billy Tipton, a male pianist and bandleader. The author traces the life of this itinerant jazz musician over several decades and through changing constructions of gender. Middlebrook, whose biography of Anne Sexton was noted for its controversial use of tape recordings and notes made during the poet's psychiatric treatment, was approached by Kitty Tipton Oakes, one of Billy's former… Read More

Virago Press Ltd, 03/12/1998 00:00:01. hardcover. Like New. 3.3974 cent in x 21.9833 cent in x 13.9894 cent in. FIRST EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post within 12 hours of receipt of order

Boston, HM Co. 1998., 1998. Book. Hardcover. F. First edition. A fine copy in dj of this interesting biography of the double life of Billy Tipton..

London.: Virago Press, 1998. D/J has small tear to bottom of spine otherwise good. The book is good tight and clean. . Suits Me is the biography of the notorious jazz musician Billy Tipton, who grew up as Dorothy Tipton but lived as a man from the time he was nineteen until he died at the age of 74. Billy Tipton's death made headlines all over the world not only because he was a celebrated musician but because of the scale of his deception. he had been married to five women and had reared several adopted children and the scarcity of ready explanations endowed the skimpy available facts with the aura of myth. You will receive the book seen in the image.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good..