Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession (SIGNED To Andrew or Andrea)

Marcus, Greil

ISBN 10: 0385417187 / ISBN 13: 9780385417181

Published by Doubleday; New York, 1991

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Doubleday; New York. 1991. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION Hardcover-- pictorial w/ large graphic of Elvis w/ intact gilt on spine-- in NEAR FINE Condition in VERY GOOD unclipped Dustjacket showing minor shelf wear. INSCRIBED on half-title: "To Andrew (or ) Andrea (could be either), & dated "29 October 1991" in year of publication; otherwise INTERIOR PRISTINE: clean, tight, bright, an unread copy. Carefully shipped in secure parcel. Seller Inventory # 509682

Bibliographic Details

Title: Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural ...

Publisher: Doubleday; New York

Publication Date: 1991

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

A look at the cultural obsession with Elvis Presley describes how many of his fans could not come to terms with his death and, thus, remade history

Review:

Go no further for the biggest thoughts about the biggest ever pop icon.

despising what Presley became, everyone is now in on--not the joke, but the remaking of their world.

Marcus's rapt attention to what Elvis continues to mean is both transmitted and justified in a splendid piece of critical art ... a marvelous and profane book about a cultural symbol of cultural symbol-making.--David Foster Wallace "Los Angeles Times Book Review "

Marcus shows that the rupture that was Elvis in 1954-57 lives on, below and above ground, glowing in grotesque and still dangerous half-life.--W.T. Lhamon, Jr. "American Quarterly "

The evidence Marcus has gathered suggests that Presley's posthumous appeal has to do with our ferocious ambivalence toward him, a blend of worship and revulsion, obeisance and revolutionary desire. Sympathetically despising what Presley became, everyone is now in on--not the joke, but the remaking of their world.--Eric Lott "The Nation "