![]() ![]() What’s remarkable is how he manages to be simultaneously compassionate and dispassionate, truthful, unflinching, and nonjudgmental. Guralnick’s book is a labor of love, and of profound respect. ![]() Narrative biography at its absolute zenith. It must be ranked among the most ambitious and crucial undertakings yet devoted to a major American figure of the second half of the 20th century….What dramatizes Presley’s life for Guralnick, what lends it emotional complexity and resonance, is the essential American drama-the tug between home and flight, acquiescence and rebellion, conventions and their transcendence.” -Gerald Marzorati, New York Times Book Reviewĭefinitive… An epic American tragedy, captured in all its complexity. “Let’s get a little loud….Peter Guralnick’s two-volume life of Elvis Aron Presley, of which Careless Love is the second installment, is not simply the finest rock-and-roll biography ever written. Winner of the Rolling Stone/ BMI Ralph J. Winner of the Book Award for Non-Fiction ![]() Winner of the 1999 Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction ![]()
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