I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive - Couverture rigide

Earle, Steve

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0618820965 ISBN 13 : 9780618820962

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011

Synopsis

Doc Ebersole lives with the ghost of Hank Williams—not just in the figurative sense, not just because he was one of the last people to see him alive, and not just because he is rumored to have given Hank the final morphine dose that killed him.

In 1963, ten years after Hank's death, Doc himself is wracked by addiction. Having lost his license to practice medicine, his morphine habit isn't as easy to support as it used to be. So he lives in a rented room in the red-light district on the south side of San Antonio, performing abortions and patching up the odd knife or gunshot wound. But when Graciela, a young Mexican immigrant, appears in the neighborhood in search of Doc's services, miraculous things begin to happen. Graciela sustains a wound on her wrist that never heals, yet she heals others with the touch of her hand. Everyone she meets is transformed for the better, except, maybe, for Hank's angry ghost—who isn't at all pleased to see Doc doing well. 

A brilliant excavation of an obscure piece of music history, Steve Earle's I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive is also a marvelous novel in its own right, a ballad of regret and redemption, and of the ways in which we remake ourselves and our world through the smallest of miracles.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

 For Doghouse Roses A Los Angeles Times Book of the Year

"Earle’s writing never lacks heart." —New York Times Book Review

"Doghouse Roses confirms the gnawing suspicion . . . that this particular guitar slinger might also make a fine author . . . Steve Earle’s musical heart has always been pure and strong; now we know this literary one beats just as true." —Austin Chronicle

"By turns tough, tender, gritty, autobiographical, stark, bold, opinionated and in spots, even funny." —San Antonio Express-News

"Terrific . . . As he does in his songs, Earle finds the tenuous points of emotional connection between characters who are living not only on the edges of their own ability to cope, but often on the very margins of society itself." —Rolling Stone

"Earle has always told a great story in song . . . Turns out he puts ’em down on the page pretty well, too." —Boston Globe

"[Earle’s] ability to write so close to the bone . . . makes Doghouse Roses such an entertaining read." —Los Angeles Times

"A beautiful and moving collection . . . I’m tempted to say it reads like a collaboration between Steinbeck and Kerouac and Bukowski, but really, I can’t think of anything else quite like it. Steve Earle has taken the great American road song and set it to prose." —Jay McInerney

"Steve Earle writes with remarkable clarity and compassion. [He] is a natural-born storyteller who writes from the depth of experience and a place in his heart only the bravest and best artists ever reach." —Howard Frank Mosher, author of Walking to Gatlinburg

Présentation de l'éditeur

Doc Ebersole lives with the ghost of Hank Williams—not just in the figurative sense, not just because he was one of the last people to see him alive, and not just because he is rumored to have given Hank the final morphine dose that killed him.

In 1963, ten years after Hank's death, Doc himself is wracked by addiction. Having lost his license to practice medicine, his morphine habit isn't as easy to support as it used to be. So he lives in a rented room in the red-light district on the south side of San Antonio, performing abortions and patching up the odd knife or gunshot wound. But when Graciela, a young Mexican immigrant, appears in the neighborhood in search of Doc's services, miraculous things begin to happen. Graciela sustains a wound on her wrist that never heals, yet she heals others with the touch of her hand. Everyone she meets is transformed for the better, except, maybe, for Hank's angry ghost—who isn't at all pleased to see Doc doing well. 

A brilliant excavation of an obscure piece of music history, Steve Earle's I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive is also a marvelous novel in its own right, a ballad of regret and redemption, and of the ways in which we remake ourselves and our world through the smallest of miracles.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0618820965
• ISBN 13: 9780618820962
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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