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Advanced Elvis course
- Title
- Advanced Elvis course / C.A. Conrad.
- Author
- Conrad, C. A.
- Publication
- Brooklyn : Soft Skull Press ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [2009], ©2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | ML420.P96 C66 2009g | Off-site |
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- Description
- 137 pages; 18 cm
- Summary
- "C.A. Conrad's unabating love for the King has put him on a pilgrimage to Memphis on an advanced ELVIS course. These bizarre, multi-faceted vignettes, conversations, and poems are an homage bursting with love, oddball white trash, and twisted sincerity. While he eats fried peanut butter banana sandwiches and chats up the locals, Conrad also imagines diverse and surreal scenarios about Elvis as the holy rock trinity: god, legend, and meat-loving Southerner with a drug problem." "These vignettes blur the distinction between real and fictional experience and become a transcendental portrait of the legendary Elvis: the man who changed music and America forever, perhaps with some illegitimate children along the way. Through sources as disparate as graffiti, talk-show interviews, phone messages, and poetry, Conrad (whose unfettered energy doesn't always feel that tied to reality) constructs a semi-mystical collage bursting with joy."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- ISBN
- 9781593762438
- 1593762437
- LCCN
- 40016782143
- OCLC
- 276339539
- ocn276339539
- SCSB-5479158
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries