Shapeshifter
Ian Penman: Elvis looks for meaning, 25 September 2014
Elvis Has Left the Building: The Day the King Died
by Dylan Jones.
Duckworth, 307 pp., £16.99, July 2014,978 0 7156 4856 8 Show More
by Dylan Jones.
Duckworth, 307 pp., £16.99, July 2014,
Elvis Presley: A Southern Life
by Joel Williamson.
Oxford, 384 pp., £25, November 2014,978 0 19 986317 4 Show More
by Joel Williamson.
Oxford, 384 pp., £25, November 2014,
“... rockabilly dudes like Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins. He found an obvious joy in the staged act of seduction: the body does brazen, while the face remains convincingly bashful. Pamela Clarke Keogh’s Elvis: The Man. The Life. The Legend (2004) is mostly what you’d expect from an official biography (‘written with the assistance of ... ”