Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley
- ISBN-10
- 0316206725
- ISBN-13
- 9780316206723
- Series
- Careless Love
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 768
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-12-20
- Publisher
- Little, Brown
- Author
- Peter Guralnick
Description
Hailed as "a masterwork" by the Wall Street Journal, Careless Loveis the full, true, and mesmerizing story of Elvis Presley's last two decades, in the long-awaited second volume of Peter Guralnick's masterful two-part biography. Winner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award Last Train to Memphis, the first part of Guralnick's two-volume life of Elvis Presley, was acclaimed by the New York Times as "a triumph of biographical art." This concluding volume recounts the second half of Elvis' life in rich and previously unimagined detail, and confirms Guralnick's status as one of the great biographers of our time. Beginning with Presley's army service in Germany in 1958 and ending with his death in Memphis in 1977, Careless Love chronicles the unravelling of the dream that once shone so brightly, homing in on the complex playing-out of Elvis' relationship with his Machiavellian manager, Colonel Tom Parker. It's a breathtaking revelatory drama that for the first time places the events of a too-often mistold tale in a fresh, believable, and understandable context. Elvis' changes during these years form a tragic mystery that Careless Love unlocks for the first time. This is the quintessential American story, encompassing elements of race, class, wealth, sex, music, religion, and personal transformation. Written with grace, sensitivity, and passion, Careless Love is a unique contribution to our understanding of American popular culture and the nature of success, giving us true insight at last into one of the most misunderstood public figures of our times.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
O Careless Love: Stories and a Novella
By Susan DoddA shy illustrator subsists through a long Vermont winter on occasional glimpses of a man in a blue pick-up truck. Whether Dodd's characters are on the lookout or on the lam, love is what maps their migrations.
-
Careless Love, Or, The Land of Promise
By Kate HorsleyThomas Hall, a young nineteenth century Bostonian and idealistic newspaperman, is fascinated by Wild West shows and dime novels.
-
Careless Love
By Steve ZettlerGrace and Lee collide, but love is careless; it will take these two innocents, toss them into a typhoon of passion and emotion, and then rip them apart, all for entertainment's sake.
-
Careless Love (Enhanced Edition): The Unmaking of Elvis Presley
By Peter Guralnick... Gene Nelson, Jimmy “C” Newman, Dr. George Nichopoulos, Thorne Nogar, John Novarese, Herbie O'Mell, Jim O'Neal, Sean O'Neal, Michael Ochs,Bob Oermann, JayOrr, Terry Pace, Frank Page,Jim Page,Colonel Tom Parker, Ed Parker, Pat Parry, ...
-
Last Train To Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
By Peter GuralnickRandle invited Neal to stay over at his place, and they stayed up much of the night talking. By the end of the evening Randle was convinced that Neal “had a big artist on his way,” and he gave Neal the ...
-
O Careless Love: Stories and a Novella
By Susan DoddSusan Dodd, the acclaimed author of The Mourners' Bench explores the multifarious and otherworldly nature of love's in this shimmering collection of short stories.
-
Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of the Great Gatsby
By Sarah ChurchwellFirst published in the United States: [New York]: The Penguin Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, 2014.
-
Careless Love
By Alice AdamsBlonde, beautiful and divorced at age 31, Daisy Duke thrives on the San Francisco high life of parties, flirtations and light romance. But then she falls in love with the...
-
Triumph of the Spider Monkey
By Joyce Carol OatesUnavailable for 40 years, this seminal novel of madness and murder is acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates' powerful trip into the mind of a maniac.
-
Careless Whispers
By Synithia WilliamsBut can love ignite—and survive—when secrets and loyalties collide? “[An] exceptional tale of forbidden love.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review, on Forbidden Promises Praise for Synithia Williams’s Jackson Falls series ...