I'll Never Get Out of this World Alive - Couverture souple

Earle, Steve

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1846555086 ISBN 13 : 9781846555084

Editeur : Harvill Secker, 2011

Synopsis

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

In 1963, ten years after Hank's death, Doc is himself wracked by addiction. Having lost his licence to practise 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 neighbourhood 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 and a marvellous novel in its own right, Steve Earle's I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive is 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

À propos de l?auteur

Steve Earle is a singer-songwriter, actor, activist, and the author of the story collection Doghouse Roses (2002) and I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive (2011).

Steve Earle has released ten critically acclaimed albums since his 1986 debut Guitar Town made him an overnight star. A prolonged struggle with drug addiction resulted in a spell in jail in the early 1990s. Since his recovery, his comeback albums, beginning with the 1995 Grammy-nominated Train a Comin', have all been critical and commercial successes. His latest album is Transcendental Blues. Earle also works on behalf of a number of political and social causes which have been the subjects of his songs for years. He serves as a board member of an organisation that seeks to abolish the death penalty and is also active in anti-landmine and welfare rights movements.

His fiction has been described by Patti Smith as “like a dream you can't shake, offering beauty and remorse, and redemption in spades.”

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvill Secker
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1846555086
• ISBN 13: 9781846555084
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible