Review:
Finished copies of ELVIS have gone out, with a publication date of 13th March. There has been initial interest from LOOSE ENDS (BBC Radio 4). Teletext are also planning a feature. The first two full pages reviews have come in, andare great: 'Bobbie Ann Mason makes an efficient guide to Elvis country.'Craig Brown, MAIL ON SUNDAY (***) 'It is a measure of Mason's deft touch as a writer that the story she tells us does not become too heavy with symbolism...[a] considerable achievement.'Justine Picardie, DAILY TELEGRAPH '...an admirably balanced study.'IRISH TIMES 'Mason cuts through the crap and gets to the agony and the ecstasy of Presley's life and times, painting a picture of a deeply flawed and hugely contradictory mythical hero sacrificed, Osiris-like, on the alter of the American consumerist dream.'David Sutton, JACK MAGAZINE There
From the Back Cover:
'Elvis Presley seemed to have sprung on the world without a history. His emergence in the mid-fifties was so sudden, his music so fresh, his personality so evocative that he could not be labelled. People went crazy. There was never a mania quite like it. Teenagers went wild with excitement; their parents went wild with anxiety over Elvis's overt sexuality. Girls ripped his car apart; they stripped his clothes off; they were ready to rock and roll. Elvis's celebrity was an amazing American phenomenon, and the entire nation was gripped by it... he swept up marginal groups of people with a promise of freedom, release, redemption; he took people close to the edge and brought them back again; with his stupendous singing talent, he blended all the strains of popular American music into one rebellious voice; he created a style of being that was so distinctive it could be made into an icon; he violated taboos against personal expression and physicality; he opened the airwaves to risk and trembling. Rock-and-roll had been brewing for years, but its defining moment was Elvis.' - Bobbie Ann Mason
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