Elvissey (Jack Womack) - Softcover

Womack, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802134955 ISBN 13: 9780802134950

Publisher: Grove Press, 1997

Synopsis

At once a biting satire and a taut, fast-paced thriller, Elvissey is the story of Isabel and John, a troubled couple who voyage from the year 2033 to a strangely altered 1954. They are on a desperate mission to kidnap the young Elvis Presley and bring him back to the present day to serve as a ready-made cult leader. He proves, however, to be a reluctant messiah, and things do not work out quite as planned.

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From the Back Cover:

IZ IS ON A MISSION FROM THE FUTURE. OUR FUTURE.

New York, 2033. A rebellious populace flocks to join the C of E – Church of Elvis. The Elvii have already formed schismatic groups: among them the Hosts of Memphis and the Shaken, Rattled and Rolled. Global corporation Dryco send their operative, Iz, back to 1954 to bring Elvis home to his adoring millions. But the America she finds is strangely altered, and so too is the King. At the Presely home Elvis – nineteen , acned, never recorded – stands over the blood-splattered body of his ma...

“Nazi flying saucers over an alternate 1950s Memphis, your basic cross-time godhead-abduction of Elvis Presley, and what must surely be one of the flat-out weirdest Fisher King inversions yet perpetrated in American literature. Achingly sad, downright alarmingly funny, and just about as serious as any of us can afford to be, 'Elvissey' is one jarringly potent kick in the head. I can only urge you to put yours cleanly in its way”
WILLIAM GIBSON, AUTHOR OF 'NEUROMANCER'

“Not since Kurt Vonnegut in his SF prime has there been a talent so iconoclastically sparkling as Womack’s”
MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS

“Womack mixes stylised prose, cyberpunk intensity and a wildfire imagination to scintillating effect”
NORTHERN ECHO

About the Author:

Jack Womack is the author of six novels, among them ‘Random Acts of Senseless Violence’ which received widespread critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. When not writing he occupies himself smoking, shopping, smoking, reading, drinking and smoking. If he’s not doing any of these things, it’s quite possible that he’s asleep, or in Russia, whichever seems more necessary at the time.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0802134955
• ISBN 13: 9780802134950
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 319