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Advanced Elvis Course

Advanced Elvis Course

by C. A. Conrad
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/06/2009

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Part psychedelic road-trip travelogue, part _x0093_Overheard in Graceland," part mystic-religious devotional, CAConrad's unabated love for the King puts him on a pilgrimage to Memphis; on an Advanced Elvis Course. These bizarre, multifaceted short pieces are an homage bursting with love, oddball white trash, and twisted sincerity.

Using a melange of breathless energy and flamboyant desire, Conrad ensnares his reader from the first vignette, leaving us no choice but to doggedly follow him around the backwaters of Memphis. Conrad blurs the distinction between real and fictional experience to create a transcendental portrait of the legendary Elvis_x0097_the man who changed music and America forever. Through sources as disparate as graffiti, talk-show interviews, phone messages, and poetry, Conrad (whose unfettered energy is about as reality-based as an evening at Graceland) constructs a semimystical collage both celebrating and laughing with the cult of Elvis.

Get ready for a surreal tour of a celebrity-obsessed, picaresque America from one of its most unusual guides. Conrad delights in turning his fantasies into our reality, making this frenetic fictionalized experience _x0093_as real as if it were real."
ISBN:
9781593762438
9781593762438
Category:
Rock & Pop music
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-06-2009
Language:
English
Publisher:
Soft Skull Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
144
Dimensions (mm):
177x139x13mm
Weight:
0.13kg

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