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I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive - Hardcover

Earle, Steve

 
9780618820962: I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0618820965 ISBN 13: 9780618820962
Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Praise for I'LL NEVER GET OUT OF THIS WORLD ALIVE

"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

". . . a doctor, a Mexican girl, an Irish priest, the ghost of Hank Williams, and JFK the day before he dies. This subtle and dramatic book is the work of a brilliant songwriter who has moved from song to orchestral ballad with astonishing ease." Michael Ondaatje

"A rich, raw mix of American myth and hard social reality, of faith and doubt, always firmly rooted in a strong sense of character." Charles Frazier

"Steve Earle writes like a shimmering neon angel." Kinky Friedman

"Earle has created a potent blend of realism and mysticism. Musician, actor, and now novelist is there another artist in America with such wide-ranging talent?" Ron Rash

"The characters are unforgettable and the plot moves like a fast train. A fantastic mixture of hard reality and dark imagination." Thomas Cobb

"A haunting and haunted bookend to Irving s Cider House Rules. Gritty and transcendent, Earle has successfully created his own potion of Texas, twang, and dope-tinged magic realism." Alice Randall

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"If Jesus were to return tomorrow to twenty-first century America and do some street preaching on the gritty South Presa Strip of San Antonio, he d love Earle s magnificently human, bighearted drifters." Howard Frank Mosher

"Colorful, cool, and downright gripping." Robert Earl Keen

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 racked by addiction. Since he lost his license to practice medicine, his morphine habit isn t as easy to support. 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, comes in search of Doc s services, miraculous things begin to happen. Graciela bears 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 exploration of an obscure piece of music history, I ll Never Get Out of This World Alive is also a wonderful 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.

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Verlag
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0618820965
ISBN 13 
9780618820962
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
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