โ Scribed by P. F. Kluge
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
{ Oct 2020 - Verified ebook for complete book description, cover, table of contents, content separation, and epub format error checking. }
Paperback, 352 pages
Published 1996
August 16 1977: Elvis Presley dies in Memphis, at a mansion called Graceland. A dozen years later, a man called Biggest Elvis - the oldest and fattest of a trio of Elvis impersonators - galvanizes the sailors and bar girls around the huge US navel base in Olongapo, Philippines. In their act, Baby Elvis (who does the youthful Presley) Dude Elvis (who does the movie years), and Biggest Elvis incarnate the King's evolving life. Their popularity grows: in a tawdry, anything goes town, a successful act becomes more than that, almost an obsession. But there are those who think that Biggest Elvis has to go.
Life is good for three Elvis impersonators working together in the Philippines, but it is not long before the popularity of the acts becomes just too big for some, and they have to find a way to sort out their problems before they all are tossed out of town.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Part mystery, part love story, part mordant commentary on America's waning presence worldwide, this hugely entertaining novel tells the story of a trio of Elvis impersonators working out of a club called Graceland in Olongapo, Philippines. In their act, Baby Elvis (who portrays the youthful Presley)
**In this dark, quirky fourteenth Dr. Siri Paiboun mystery set in Communist Laos in the early '80s, a death threat sends Dr. Siri down memory lane, from Paris in the '30s to war-torn Vietnam in the '70s, to figure out who's trying to kill him now.** ** **Vientiane, 1980: For a man of his age an
An informative introduction to the "world records" held by fourteen members of the animal kingdom. Each spread portrays an animal that is the largest, slowest, longest lived. Readers can see the animal's size in relation to something familiar.
As he sets out on his first adventure in life, a young man enters the dark realm of adult violence; a married suburbanite longs for the wide, mysterious world that seems to hover just beyond the next turn in the road; a pair of disturbed twins commit a pointless crime; and the boy of the title story