Strange Fruit
Subtitle: The Biography of a Song
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: January 23, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780060959562
First sentence: AS BILLIE HOLIDAY later told the story, a single gesture by a patron at a New York nightclub called Cafe Society changed the history of American music that night in early 1939, the night that she first sang "Strange Fruit."