Like Cold Oysters
Bee Wilson, 19 May 2016
Edith Piaf: A Cultural History
by David Looseley.
Liverpool, 254 pp., £25, October 2015,978 1 78138 257 8 Show More
by David Looseley.
Liverpool, 254 pp., £25, October 2015,
“... It’s got to tear [the audience] apart, scream at them, that’s what my character is.’In David Looseley’s new interpretation, Piaf’s notoriously elusive life story is best told as cultural history. This is a book about Piaf and her crowd. Rather than trying to get to the ‘real’ Piaf, as Robert Belleret did in Piaf, un mythe français ... ”