Based on hundreds of interviews and nearly a decade of research, it traces the evolution not just of the man but of the music and of the culture he left utterly transformed, creating a completely fresh portrait of Elvis and his world. Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley is the first biography to go past that myth and present an Elvis beyond the legend. “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 whitewashed 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.From the moment that he first shook up the world in the mid 1950s, Elvis Presley has been one of the most vivid and enduring myths of American culture. “Altogether splendid….It is the particular and spectacular achievement of Last Train to Memphis that it holds both the making of the history and the beginning of the myth in firm, simple and compassionate focus….Guralnick paints this world with perspective, respect and great decency it is one of the book’s triumphs.” -Jay Cocks, Time Guralnick’s narrative is rendered with an intimate, restrained intensity eerily reminiscent of the plaintive tone of Presley’s ballads, that tremulous yearning of America itself.” -Stephen Wright, New York Times Book Review
“A triumph of biographical art…profound and moving….Even the minor revelations are positively spellbinding….Mr. Runner-up, Southern Book Critics’ Circle Award for Non-Fiction One of Entertainment Weekly’s 100 “New Classics: Best Reads from 1983-2008”
One of Time Magazine’s Top Five Non-Fiction Books of the Year One of Entertainment Weekly’s Top Five Non-Fiction Books of the Decade Gleason Music Book AwardĮntertainment Weekly’s Book of the Year (1994) A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
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