Steve Earle

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I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

" I'll Never Get Out of This World Aliveis like a dream you can't shake, offering beauty and remorse, redemption in spades." -Patti Smith, singer-songwriter, poet, visual artist, and author of Just Kids 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 Aliveis 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. "In fine songwriter fashion, [Earle] relies on the familiar forms-verse, chorus, verse-to create this Texas noir." - The Washington Post

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• Text-to-Speech

Autor

STEVE EARLE is a singer-songwriter, actor, activist, and the author of a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, the story collection Doghouse Roses. He has released more than a dozen critically acclaimed albums, including the Grammy winners The Revolution Starts Now, Washington Square Serenade, and Townes. He has appeared on film and television, with celebrated roles in The Wire and Treme. His album entitled I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive was produced by T Bone Burnett. He often tours with his wife, singer-songwriter Allison Moorer.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HMH Books
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780547549040
• Artikelnr.: 40176105

Rezensionen

Steve Earle brings to his prose the same authenticity, poetic spirit, and cinematic energy he projects in his music. I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive is like a dream you can't shake, offering beauty and remorse, redemption in spades Patti Smith