Last Train to Memphis The Rise of Elvis Presley.pdf

"The result of Mr. Guralnick's meticulous research is not only the most

complete biographical portrait of the young Elvis but also a landmark

contribution to American cultural history that invites comparison with

classic accounts of such American lives as Walt Whitman and Martin

Luther King, Jr."

- New York Observer

"Magisterial ... the deinitive chronicle of Elvis' early years."

- Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Academics, rock critics, historians ... have all had a shot at telling and

retelling the story of the singer's life. But none have had the insight or

the graceful, lyrical style of music writer Peter Guralnick.... Last

Train to Memphis reads more like a well-written novel than another

Elvis biography."

- Chicago Sun-Times

"A wonderful portrait of 50S America and a disturbing exploration of

fame. The book's biggest achievement is that it gives back Elvis Presley'S

humanity. Peter Guralnick deserves to live in Graceland."

- Roddy Doyle

"The familiar course ... is plotted with observant social and cultural

history, keen musicology, and good humor. Guralnick's portrayal of the

teeming life of the Memphis public-housing district where Elvis spent

his teen years is a meditation not only on adolescence but on postwar

poverty and aspiration as well." - The New Yorker

"Studious, engaging ... Last Train to Memphis is a study of preternatural

talent as much as it is a slice of American history."

- Washington Post Book World

"A job of cultural reclamation .... Guralnick treats the Southern expe

rience with vast sensitivity and respect. Indeed, Last Train to Memphis

is moving in the way certain old-fashioned naturalistic novels are ....

The deinitive book on the subject."

- The Nation

PRAISE FOR

LAST TRAIN TO MEMPHIS

"Peter Guralnick has done the impossible: He has brought a freshness, an

innocence, and a seriousness to the life of Elvis Presley .... To accomplish

this, he interviewed scores of people, plowed through the mini-industry of

Presley publishing, and then wiped the slate clean: Guralnick gives us a life

of Elvis as if it had never been told before, and in a sense, it hasn't, not this

way."

Entertainment Weekly

"Unrivaled account of Elvis as he walks the path between heaven and

nature in an America that was wide open " when anything was possible,

not the whitewashed golden calf but the incendiary musical irebrand

loner who conquered the western world, he steps from the pages, you can

feel him breathe, this book cancels out all others."

-Bob Dylan

"Last Train is a story that crackles and breathes, that brings to life the

people, neighborhoods, schools, homes, churches, picnics, recording stu

dios, and clubs that were part of Presley's life. It has the depth of a good

history and the richness of literature."

-Detroit Free Press

"Guralnick has written a new standard biography .... Like an incarna

tion of Whitman's philosophy, the Elvis Presley Peter Guralnick has given

us contains multitudes .... Extraordinary."

-Dave Marsh

"Bound to be the deinitive biography ... an American epic that belongs

- Kirkus Reviews

on every bookshelf."

"As with his other writings on American music, Peter Guralnick sends you

rushing back to the recordings with fresh ears. This is the inest compli

ment that I can pay someone writing about music."

- Elvis Costello

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