Last Train to Memphis

Unrivalled… Elvis steps from the pages. You can feel him breathe. This book cancels out all others * Bob Dylan *A wonderful book… Guralnick gives us an Elvis of real flesh and blood… the richest and most detailed portrait of Presley we have ever had * Sunday Telegraph *Wonderful… Guralnick deserves to live in Graceland * Roddy Doyle *The adjective ‘definitive’ seems almost inadequate * Daily Telegraph *A triumph of biographical art… profound and moving… Even the minor revelations are positively spellbinding… Guralnick’s narrative is rendered with an intimate, restrained intensity eerily reminiscent of the plaintive tone of Presley’s ballads, that tremulous yearning of America itself * New York Times Book Review *Soars above all other books-for-bucks accounts of Elvis… Excellent * Guardian *The writer’s decades of research leap off the page. A classic * Time Out *The first definitive work on Presley’s life * Irish Times *Altogether splendid… It is the particular and spectacular achievement of Last Train to Memphis that it holds both the making of the history and the beginning of the myth in firm, simple and compassionate focus… Guralnick paints this world with perspective, respect and great decency; it is one of the book’s triumphs * Time *Guralnick takes a sensible and sensitive approach, tracing the roots of an American dream… Guralnick perfectly captures Elvis’s mixture of naivety and shrewdness… A serious, musically literate and historically attuned biography. An American epic that belongs on every bookshelf * Kirkus *It’s hard to reclaim Elvis from the weight of history and slander, but Guralnick does it beautifully… [He] tells this 20th century myth with a fine regard for his subject’s humanity * Mojo *A wonderful book…Guralnick gives us an Elvis of real flesh and blood…the richest and most detailed protrait of Presely we have ever had. * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *Unrivalled…Elvis steps out of these pages, you can feel him breathe, this book cancels out all others - BOB DYLAN * Wonderful…Guralnick deserves to live in Graceland - RODDY DOYLE *

Peter Guralnick’s books include the prize-winning two-volume biography of Elvis Presley, Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love; an acclaimed trilogy on American roots music, Feel Like Going Home, Lost Highway, and Sweet Soul Music; the biographical inquiry Searching for Robert Johnson; and Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke. Guralnick won a Grammy for his liner notes for Sam Cooke Live at the Harlem Square Club, wrote and co-produced the documentary Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll, and wrote the scripts for the Grammy-winning documentary Sam Cooke/Legend and Martin Scorsese’s blues documentary Feel Like Going Home. His 2015 book Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll was a finalist for the Plutarch Award for Best Biography of the Year, awarded by the Biographers International Organization. His most recent book is Looking to Get Lost: Adventures in Music and Writing.

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