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Careless Love: The Unmaking Of Elvis Presley
Guralnick, Peter (1999)

Little, Brown and Company , Boston (MA)
hardback with dust jacket , 767 pages , 24.0 x 16.2 x 4.4 cm , 1.125 kg
ISBN-10: 0-316-33222-4 , ISBN-13: 978-0-316-33222-4

Category: Biographies
Language: English
Description: The second volume of a two-part biography of Elvis, this book covers his life from 1958 to 1977. First US edition.
Review(s): Review by David Neale on local copy on elvisbooks.nl ...IMAGE (February 1999)
Review by Deena Dietrich on deenadays.com ...IMAGE (February 2018)
Review by Jonathan Yardley on Elvis In Norway ...IMAGE (1999)
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Vote(s): This book was rated by 17 person(s), 17 of them read this book. Their average rating was 7.7.
Their comments:
" Compelling biography of the last 19 years of Elvis's life. It completing shows the reader the great tragedy of Elvis's life, the careless handling of his promising career, the personal upheavals and lathergy that became his world in his final years. It is a sad sequel to Last Train to Memphis, but is written in thoughtful and humbling tribute to Elvis's memory. another must have. M from TN "
" goldman rewritten "
" Detailed, almost day by day, story of Elvis life from his service in Germany till his very last hours . You can read about many concerts and sessions song by song, minute by minute, and give a whole new meaning to some of your ftd records . "
" Well written and well organized book "
" Well written, but just alil disappointed compared to his first book Last Train to Memphis "
" The amount of detail and chronlogical writing makes this combined with the first book of the series the definative Elvis Biography. "
" oh my god after the great first one this is a real downer! He simply copied ugly stories from other books....baaaad "
" Tought this woul be the ultimate book on later years..it's not,it copied from others... "
(Votes and comments were received between November 2, 2002 and March 12, 2014. They do not necessarily express the views of ElvisBooks)
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