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Artist: Bobbie Ann  Mason
Title: Elvis Presley
$10.00
Elvis Presley

Format: Hardback Book

Grade (Outer/Inner): VG++

Label: Viking

When Bobbie Ann Mason first heard Elvis Presley on the family radio, she recognized him as "one of us . . . a country person who spoke our language"--Southern, working class, a little wild. In Elvis Presley, the bestselling author of the two modern American classics Shiloh and Other Storiesand In Countrycaptures all the vibrancy and tragedy of this mythic figure. With heartfelt intimacy and a novelist's insight, Mason charts the intoxicating life of the first rock-and-roll superstar, whose music shattered barriers and changed the sound of America. Elvis the impassioned singer and charismatic youth embraced the celebrity brought him by a host of top-forty hits and movies. But Elvis the small-town boy and devoted son was in no way prepared for being catapulted into an unimagined stratosphere. This is the riveting story of an unforgettable man and his indelible legacy.... Hardback with dj..