This is the story of three people: acclaimed writer Julia Blackburn; her father, Thomas - a poet and alcoholic with an addiction to barbiturates; and her mother, Rosalie - a flirtatious painter with n
In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted an illness that left him stone deaf. Yet he continued to interact with the world and to create, spending the next thi
許多人如此形容比莉.哈樂黛的演唱方式,She sang her heart out,把心都唱出來了。爵士樂迷都熟悉她的歌聲,搖滾樂迷中聽過她名字的也大有人在,因為U2合唱團1988年登上排行榜的單曲《哈林的天使》(Angel of Harlem)就是獻給她的。歌詞裡說「我在WBLS電台聽到天使的聲音」(”On BLS I heard the sound of an angel”)。天使的聲音聽起來
In 1913, at the age of 54, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. Brilliantly reviewed, astonishingly original, this "eloquent and illuminating portrait of an extraordinary woman"