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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. The King!!!! Unfortunately it doesn't cover his whole life, I could've read on and on.. ( ) I love Mark Childress. I didn't even know I loved Elvis until I read this book (and visited Graceland). Childress is able to capture the hilarity, absurdity, vibrancy and poignancy of his characters' lives, the music business and the South. It's a tender book that made me laugh out loud, and made me want to read all of his other works immediately. Mark Childress has a vivid writing style that makes this book an easy read. However, living in Elvis' hometown of Memphis, I found this book a tad too true to Elvis' life - less fiction and more fictionalized biography. It went on a little long, with too many details where you don't care to have them, and too few where you're dying to know more. Funny and tragic, but very human, this novel is obviously based on Elvis Presley’s rise to fame. It includes the magical realism I appreciated in [Crazy in Alabama], and creates an incredibly musical story, something that strikes me as a great literary challenge. If you like Presley, distinctively American music, Southern tales or powerful human dramas, you should enjoy this book. My only problem was the ending, a sense that it was unfinished, but that may have been because I wanted to keep on reading! aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"A big, all American, Technicolor dreamboat of a book...This is a great novel." STEPHEN KING In TENDER, novelist Mark Childress has redefined the American epic. He takes us on a wild ride through the last three decades as his fictional hero, Leroy Kirby, makes his meteoric rise to stardom, from the poverty-stricken child of an overprotective mother and absent father, to an icon who stands for everything American -- a role that will ultimately consume him. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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