Bricktop

by Bricktop, James Haskins, Jane Wong, et al.

Book Overview

Hers is the candid, high-spirited story of a scrappy redhead colored girl from West Virginia and Chicago who combined her unerring eye for talent and chich with a uniquely American brashness and an eminently European sophistication to become the toast of two continents.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689113498
• ISBN13: 9780689113499
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

FAMOUS AND REMEMBERED AMERICAN BLACK NIGHT CLUB PERSONALITY. HER NAME WAS BRICKTOP

READING THIS BRINGS UP UNKNOWN AND KNOWN REMININESSENCES OF A PAST ERA IN US, FRANCE, ITALY, & MEXICO FROM A STRONG WILLED WOMAN OF COLOR. SHE DOESN'T MINCE WORDS IN THIS FAST MOVING, BITTERSWEET MEMOIR OF THIS FACINATION POWERHOUSE IN THE DEEP DEMI MONDE OF INTERNATIONAL NIGHTCLUBS. FAMOUS NAMES AND PLACES OF YORE. SHE WAS AN ORIGINAL. FACINATING.

Good Book

I bought the book for a friend Yve Evans thet was playing Bricktop in a stage play. It was very helpful. Yve enjoyed the book and it helped her better understand the woman she was playing.....