Edith Piaf: The Wheel of Fortune: The Official Autobiography

by Édith Piaf

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0720612284
• ISBN13: 9780720612288
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 7.8"