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Notes on it structure–the main story is set in 1983…but in Book 1, every other chapter is set in the past until the timeline intersects ...more...]]> 60233313 1533198 41250 0312425287 9780312425289 65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169585967m/41250.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41250.Graceland 3.76 428 4 0 false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 17:40:58 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 22:17:17 -0700 2009
Graceland is set mostly in the early 1980's in the Lagos slum, Makota, and the protagonist is a boy for whom the grandest ambition imaginable is to become an Elvis impersonato...more...]]> 37438181 880021 41250 0312425287 9780312425289 65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169585967m/41250.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41250.Graceland 3.76 428 4 2 false Fri Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 11 11:43:17 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 21 12:18:32 -0800 2008
The book he had fallen asleep reading, Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man", fell from his side to the floor, the old paperback cracking at the spine, falling nea...more...]]> 62020345 988767 41250 0312425287 9780312425289 65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169585967m/41250.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41250.Graceland 3.76 428 3 0 false Sun Jul 26 15:08:24 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 09:26:13 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 15:08:24 -0700 2009
A goodreads friend recommended I take up this novel about a teenage Elvis impersonator living in 1980's Nigeria. Around the middle of the novel, the author did something I ver...more...]]> 23789083 1210014 41250 0312425287 9780312425289 65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169585967m/41250.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41250.Graceland 3.76 428 0 1 false Thu Jun 05 12:24:01 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 05 12:25:45 -0700 2008 66179854 1127819 41250 0312425287 9780312425289 65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169585967m/41250.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41250.Graceland 3.76 428 4 0 false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 12:48:24 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 12:55:51 -0700 2009
What it lacked in consistency of character and plotting (the father kind of became ...more...]]> 59573128 614750 41250 0312425287 9780312425289 65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169585967m/41250.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41250.Graceland 3.76 428 4 0 true Mon Jul 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 19:55:14 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 02:48:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 68469857 1746964 41250 0312425287 9780312425289 65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169585967m/41250.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41250.Graceland 3.76 428 4 0 false Wed Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 12:42:33 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 12:53:19 -0700 2009
The central character is a young man growing up in the slums of Lagos, Nigeria. Though the civil war is "over" unbelievable violence continues. This is a situation...more...]]> 48634839 1188508 41250 0312425287 9780312425289 65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169585967m/41250.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41250.Graceland 3.76 428 3 2 false Sun May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 17:00:39 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 16:16:56 -0700 2009 Graceland, chronicles a dark page of Nigeria's history as we follow a young boy learning to live and...more...]]> 11317309 714416 41250 0312425287 9780312425289 65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169585967m/41250.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41250.Graceland 3.76 428 2 1 false Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Sun Dec 30 21:51:10 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 30 22:00:50 -0800 2007 more...]]> 7949470 230678 41250 0312425287 9780312425289 65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169585967m/41250.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41250.Graceland 3.76 428 4 0 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 19 14:16:59 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 19 14:23:37 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4766068 290641 41250 0312425287 9780312425289 65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169585967m/41250.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41250.Graceland 3.76 428 4 0 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 19 08:31:42 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 16 12:13:47 -0700 2007 more...]]> 54361789 1387345 41250 0312425287 9780312425289 65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169585967m/41250.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41250.Graceland 3.76 428 5 0 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 09:14:14 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 09:17:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 27155590 1324847 41250 0312425287 9780312425289 65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169585967m/41250.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41250.Graceland 3.76 428 4 0 false Sun Jul 13 17:40:43 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 13 17:53:07 -0700 2008 more...]]> 65836239 2148573 41250 0312425287 9780312425289 65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169585967m/41250.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41250.Graceland 3.76 428 1 0 false Fri Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 22:24:39 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 17:50:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 60954671 237344 41250 0312425287 9780312425289 65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169585967m/41250.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41250.Graceland 3.76 428 3 0 false Mon Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 12:50:32 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 21:08:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 67963417 1947671 41250 0312425287 9780312425289 65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169585967m/41250.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41250.Graceland 3.76 428 4 0 false Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 18:37:09 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 18:39:16 -0700 2009 45813354 1341118 41250 0312425287 9780312425289 65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169585967m/41250.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41250.Graceland 3.76 428 3 0 false Mon Feb 09 06:21:31 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 06:59:36 -0800 2009 more...]]> 75795311 2771838 41250 0312425287 9780312425289 65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169585967m/41250.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41250.Graceland 3.76 428 5 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Oct 26 12:26:28 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 12:28:38 -0700 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=41250