I am Melba: A Biography by Ann Blainey [Large Print]

I am Melba: A Biography by Ann Blainey [Large Print]

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781458763020
Author: Ann Blainey
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Black Inc
Place: Melbourne VIC
Year: 2008
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336 pages
Period: 19th and 20th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Ex library copy with external stickers and protective plastic covering. Date due slip on inside page. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Large Print book.

I Am Melba - how a Melbourne girl defied her father and left her husband to become the most famous singer of the age.

Growing up in Melbourne, Nellie Mitchell showed musical promise and dreamed of fame, but her father had more orthodox plans in mind. Early marriage took her to the Queensland cane fields but her ambitions remained, and she soon fled to London, trusting in talent and luck to get her by.

Within a few years, reborn as Nellie Melba, she was performing in overflowing concert halls, hobnobbing with royalty and collaborating with Europe's most renowned musicians. When her affair with the heir to the defunct French throne was discovered, the press chased them from Paris to St Petersburg and back again, desperate for a glimpse of "the Voice" and her royal conquest.

Feted and condemned by critics, relentlessly pursued by the press and mobbed by adoring fans, Dame Nellie Melba was Australia's first superstar. Behind the scenes, she was a canny businesswoman, an affectionate mother and a playful practical joker.

When she died in 1931, apparently after a botched face-lift, flags were flown at half-mast and thousands turned out to see her funeral cortege.

In this definitive biography, Ann Blainey captures the exuberance, controversy and pathos of a remarkable Australian life. (publisher blurb)

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