Elvis Rising: Stories on the King

by T. Coraghessan Boyle, W. P. KINSELLA, Julie Hecht

Elvis is Everywhere! At the Blue Moon...where his generosity rescues a forlorn waitress from her own personal Heartbreak Hotel. In a roadside diner...where a clash between a detractor & a devotee has comically unappetizing consequences. At Graceland...where a would-be mass murderer achieves a bizarre state of grace. Now, the brightest lights in contemporary fiction offer their own variations on an enduring American Elvis Presley, the King of Rock-n-Roll. Here is Elvis in the flesh & fantasy — the icon, the spirit, the idea — in 16 stunning & hilarious, poignant & outrageous riffs on stardom & obsession.

262 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1993

About the author

T. Coraghessan Boyle (also known as T.C. Boyle, is a U.S. novelist and short story writer. Since the late 1970s, he has published eighteen novels and twleve collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988 for his third novel, World's End, which recounts 300 years in upstate New York. He is married with three children. Boyle has been a
Professor of English at the University of Southern California since 1978, when he founded the school's undergraduate creative writing program.

He grew up in the small town on the Hudson Valley that he regularly fictionalizes as Peterskill (as in widely anthologized short story Greasy Lake). Boyle changed his middle name when he was 17 and exclusively used Coraghessan for much of his career, but now also goes by T.C. Boyle.

Reviews

[M]

Zero stars. Read 3 stories and couldn't read any further. I read w.p. kinsella's story and nope, still no good.