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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

Critics Review

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
The adjective 'definitive' seems almost inadequate
Daily Telegraph
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
The first definitive work on Presley's life
Irish Times
Altogether splendid... It is the particular and spectacular achievement of Last Train to Memphis that it holds both the making of the history and the beginning of the myth in firm, simple and compassionate focus... Guralnick paints this world with perspective, respect and great decency; it is one of the book's triumphs
Time
Guralnick takes a sensible and sensitive approach, tracing the roots of an American dream... Guralnick perfectly captures Elvis's mixture of naivety and shrewdness... A serious, musically literate and historically attuned biography. An American epic that belongs on every bookshelf
Kirkus
It's hard to reclaim Elvis from the weight of history and slander, but Guralnick does it beautifully... [He] tells this 20th century myth with a fine regard for his subject's humanity
Mojo
A wonderful book...Guralnick gives us an Elvis of real flesh and blood...the richest and most detailed protrait of Presely we have ever had.
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
Unrivalled...Elvis steps out of these pages, you can feel him breathe, this book cancels out all others - BOB DYLAN
Wonderful…Guralnick deserves to live in Graceland - RODDY DOYLE
Author Peter Guralnick
Narrator Kevin Stillwell
Duration 22 hours and 33 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781399642873
Format Audiobook
Publisher Orion
Genre Biography: arts and entertainment, Biography: general, Music
Availability AU, GB, IE

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