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    Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley - 'The richest portrait of Presley we have ever had' Sunday Telegraph

    Peter Guralnick

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    The first volume of Peter Guralnick's critically acclaimed Elvis Presley biographies

    'Elvis steps from the pages. You can feel him breathe' BOB DYLAN

    'Wonderful' RODDY DOYLE

    Last Train to Memphis is arguably the first serious biography that refuses to dwell on the myth of Elvis. Aiming instead to portray in vivid, dramatic terms the life and career of this outstanding artistic and cultural phenomenon, it draws together a plethora of documentary and interview material to create a superbly coherent and plausible narrative.

    This is the first of three volumes from music critic and author, Peter Guralnick, and covers Presley's stratospheric rise to stardom up to his departure for Germany in 1958. Last Train to Memphis is undoubtedly the benchmark by which other biographies of Elvis are judged.

    'Soars above all other accounts of Elvis' GUARDIAN

    'A triumph of biographical art... profound and moving' NEW YORK TIMES

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    More books by Peter Guralnick
    Careless Love
    Peter Guralnick
    Careless Love
    The Colonel and the King
    Peter Guralnick
    The Colonel and the King
    Feel Like Going Home
    Peter Guralnick
    Feel Like Going Home
    Sweet Soul Music
    Peter Guralnick
    Sweet Soul Music
    Looking To Get Lost
    Peter Guralnick
    Looking To Get Lost
    Sam Phillips
    Peter Guralnick
    Sam Phillips
    Dream Boogie
    Peter Guralnick
    Dream Boogie
    Da Capo Best Music Writing 2000
    Douglas Wolk, Peter Guralnick
    Da Capo Best Music Writing 2000

    Praise for Last Train to Memphis

    • Unrivalled... Elvis steps from the pages. You can feel him breathe. This book cancels out all others - Bob Dylan

    • A wonderful book... Guralnick gives us an Elvis of real flesh and blood... the richest and most detailed portrait of Presley we have ever had - Sunday Telegraph

    • Wonderful... Guralnick deserves to live in Graceland - Roddy Doyle

    • A triumph of biographical art... profound and moving... Even the minor revelations are positively spellbinding... Guralnick's narrative is rendered with an intimate, restrained intensity eerily reminiscent of the plaintive tone of Presley's ballads, that tremulous yearning of America itself - New York Times Book Review

    • Soars above all other books-for-bucks accounts of Elvis... Excellent - Guardian

    • The writer's decades of research leap off the page. A classic - Time Out

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    Peter Guralnick

    Peter Guralnick

    Peter Guralnick's books include the prize-winning two-volume biography of Elvis Presley, Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love; an acclaimed trilogy on American roots music, Feel Like Going Home, Lost Highway, and Sweet Soul Music; the biographical inquiry Searching for Robert Johnson; and Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke. Guralnick won a Grammy for his liner notes for Sam Cooke Live at the Harlem Square Club, wrote and co-produced the documentary Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll, and wrote the scripts for the Grammy-winning documentary Sam Cooke/Legend and Martin Scorsese's blues documentary Feel Like Going Home. His 2015 book Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll was a finalist for the Plutarch Award for Best Biography of the Year, awarded by the Biographers International Organization. His most recent book is Looking to Get Lost: Adventures in Music and Writing.

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