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Elvis Presley A Life

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ISBN-10: 0143038893

ISBN-13: 9780143038894

Edition: N/A

Authors: Bobbie Ann Mason

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A vibrant, sympathetic portrait of the once and future king of rock n roll by the award-winning author of "Shiloh" and "In Country" To this clear-eyed portrait of the first rock n roll superstar, Bobbie Ann Mason brings a novelists insight and the empathy of a fellow Southerner who, from the first time she heard his voice on the family radio, knew that Elvis was one of us. "Elvis Presley" deftly braids the mythic and human aspects of his story, capturing both the charismatic, boundary-breaking singer who reveled in his celebrity and the soft-spoken, working-class Southern boy who was fatally unprepared for his success. The result is a riveting, tragic book that goes to the heart of the…    
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Book details

List price: $24.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/31/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.10" wide x 7.12" long x 0.54" tall
Weight: 0.308
Language: English

Peter F. Drucker has been Clarke Professor of Social Science and Management at Claremont Graduate School in California since 1971.Bobbie Ann Mason is the author of the novels "In Country" "Spence+Lila', & "Feather Crowns", which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award & won the Southern Book Award. Her short-story collection "Shiloh & Other Stories" won the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction & was nominated for other major prizes. Her memoir, "Clear Springs", was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Her fiction has appeared in "The New Yorker", "The Atlantic Monthly", & elsewhere. She lives in Kentucky.