Elvis - Rilegato

Mason, Bobbie Ann

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0297829793 ISBN 13: 9780297829799

Casa editrice: W&N, 2003

Riassunto

When Bobbie Ann Mason first heard Elvis singing on the radio, she recognised immediately that 'he was ours...a country person who spoke our language'. Born to a poor family clinging to the edge of respectability, Elvis was catapulted into a stratosphere of wealth and fame he could never have imagined. His music, blending black and white influences and drawing on his powerful sexual allure, exploded across 1950s America as the sound of liberation. But as Mason shows with great understanding, nothing in Elvis's life had prepared him for his mythic status. Locked into a sharecropper-like contract with his manager, Colonel Parker, he was forced to keep churning out mediocre movies and albums, while turning to drugs and spending sprees to cope with his isolation. Even his triumphant comeback in Las Vegas couldn't banish the demons that eventually cost him his life. Elvis is a book that only Bobbie Ann Mason could have written, and the Elvis she portrays is unforgettable.

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L'autore:

Bobbie Ann Mason is one of America's leading contemporary fiction writers. Her first short story was published by the New Yorker in 1980. She then went on to win the 1982 Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award for Shiloh and Other Stories. Other works include In-Country, Spence and Lila, Midnight Magic, Clear Springs: A Family Story and Feather Crowns. She lives in rural Kentucky.

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When prizewinning novelist, Bobbie Ann Mason first heard Elvis Presley singing on the family radio, she recognised immediately that 'he was one of us, a country person who spoke our language'. She understood the roots of his powerful, startling music. Born to a poor family clinging to the edge of respectability, Elvis was catapulted into a stratosphere of wealth and fame he could never have imagined. His music, blending black and white influences and drawing on his powerful sexual allure, exploded across 1950s America as the sound of liberation. But as Mason shows with great understanding, nothing in Elvis's life had prepared him for his mythic status. Locked into a sharecropper-like contract with his manager, Colonel Parker, he was forced to keep churning out mediocre movies and albums, while turning to drugs and spending sprees to cope with his isolation. Even his triumphant comeback in Las Vegas couldn't banish the demons that eventually cost him his life. With the intimacy of a fellow-Southerner and the insight of a novelist, Mason tells the story of the intoxicating rise and painful decline of the first rock-and-roll superstar, whose music shattered barriers and changed the sound of America. Price in UK 14.99 Bobbie Ann Mason is the author of Shiloh and Other Stories, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award; Feather Crowns and Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail, both of which won the Southern Book Award in the US. Other works include Spence and Lila, Midnight Magic and the bestselling novel In Country, which was made into a film starring Bruce Willis. Her memoir, Clear Springs, was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Mason lives in rural Kentucky and is currently Writer in Residence at the University of Kentucky. Jacket credits: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Orion Publishing Group Orion House 5 Upper Saint Martin's Lane London, WC2H 9EA

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• Editore: W&N
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0297829793
• ISBN 13: 9780297829799
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 160