![]() His (all too rare) refusal to criticize, second-guess or gloat…lends the entire enterprise an aura of capaciousness, generosity and even transcendence….Everything in the biography strikes you as fitting seamlessly together…. 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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