Careless Love
The Unmaking of Elvis PresleyFull Description
Last Train to Memphis, the first part of this author's two-volume life of Elvis Presley, received unpprecedented accolades. This concluding volume recounts the second half of Elvis's live in rich & previously unimagined detail, & confirms the authors status as one of the great biographers of our time. Beginning with Presley's army service in Germany in 1958 & ending with his death in Memphis in 1977, Careless Love chronicles the unraveling of the dream that once shone so brightly, homing in on the complex playing-out of Elvis's relationship with his Machiavellian manager, Colonel Tom Parker. ... more
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Critical Praise
"Unrivaled account of Elvis as he walks the path between heaven and nature in an America that was wide open, when anything was possible, not the white washed golden calf but the incendiary musical firebrand loner who conquered the western world, he steps from the pages, you can feel him breathe, this book cancels out all the others."
-Bob Dylan
"Not simply the finest rock-and-roll biography ever written. It must be ranked among the most ambitious and crucial undertakings yet devoted to a major American figure of the second half of the twentieth century."
-New York Times Book Review
"This sequel to his exhilarating first volume is the most meticulously researched and sympathetic, honest portrait of Elvis we are likely to see."
-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Guralnick gives us a fallible human being destroyed by forces within as well as without. It's an epic American tragedy, captured here in all its complexity."
-Publishers Weekly (starred review)
- Category:
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, MUSIC
- Format:
- HARDCOVER BOOK
- Publish Date:
- 1/8/1999
- Price:
- $27.95/$37.95
- ISBN:
- 9780316332224
- Pages:
- 784
- Size:
- 6" x 9-1/4"
