Nina Simone, roman
Comment Eunice Kathleen Waymon, la petite fille noire née dans une famille pauvre à Tryon, Caroline du Nord, en 1933, est-elle devenue l’immense Nina Simone, la diva à la voix unique et au toucher de piano inoubliable?
Le destin de Nina Simone ressemble à un roman : c’est ce roman que Gilles Leroy recompose, livrant avec tendresse l’histoire totalement vraie et totalement romancée d’une artiste adulée dans le monde entier – mais si seule dans la vie.
Avec cet émouvant portrait d’une femme blessée, Gilles Leroy nous offre, après Alabama Song et Zola Jackson, le troisième volet de sa trilogie américaine.
- Bleue
- Paru le 07/03/2013
- Genre : Littérature française
- 272 pages - 140 x 205 mm
- EAN : 9782715234055
- ISBN : 9782715234055
Foreign Rights
Nina Simone, a novel
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Italy - Gremese
Netherlands - Cossee
Croatia - Filolosko
Presentation
« “I was famous, I was recognized on the street, I gave concerts throughout the country, my records were sold in Europe... Television clamored for me, movie stars too invited me to dinner: Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra, the tiny Natalie Wood... My friends were writers, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry. Could my life ever get more beautiful? I was the darling of the moment and a little voice in me kept whispering: “hold on to this, Eunice, it may not last”. Eunice, was my real name you know. Now I’ve forgotten. Fifty years in the skin of Nina Simone made me forget my name. And it’s a strange thing, at the end of it all, to carry a name that was never one’s own and to live a destiny not one’s own. »
How did Eunice Kathleen Waymon, the little black girl born in a poor family in Tryon, North Carolina, in 1933, become the great Nina Simone, the diva with the incredible voice and so many talents? Nina Simone's life resembles a novel: and it is this novel that Gilles Leroy has written, like a puzzle carefully assembled piece after piece, recounting with great tenderness the singer’s story both completely true and completely fictionalized, a life of rapid success and fatal disappointments... In this moving portrait of a powerful and fragile woman, Gilles Leroy brings us, after Alabama Song and Zola Jackson, the third part of his American trilogy.
Gilles Leroy is the author of L’Amant russe, Alabama Song (prix Goncourt 2007, translated into 29 languages), Zola Jackson and Dormir avec ceux qu’on aime.
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