Piaf by Simone Berteaut

Piaf by Simone Berteautis a 488-page hardcover published in 1972 by Harper & Row Publishers.  Stated First Edition. The dust jacket shows shelf wear, some closed tears, and sun fading along the top.  Inside, the pages are clean.  Book Summary A tiny figure in a plain black dress singing with pulsating voice about love, loneliness, despair, and courage, standing in a small circle of light, reaching out with fragile hands to the throngs who crowded the music halls to hear her sing--that was Edith Piaf, one of the greatest performances of the twentieth century.  Her audiences loved her, lived with her through twenty years of triumph and disaster, passion and scandal.  Piaf held nothing back, onstage or off, but gave her all, making her life the subject the subject of her songs, living intensely, loving enormously, consuming herself. This book is the complete story of Edith's life.  Literally born on the sidewalks of Paris, Piaf was brought up in a brothel.  As a child she sang for pe