This second book details the star’s increasing dissatisfaction with his career (especially his movies), intermittent enthusiasms (particularly karate), wild generosity, failed marriage, boredom and isolation, and his nightmarish tailspin into drug addiction. The first, Last Train to Memphis, follows the performer’s remarkable career until he entered the army in 1958 and is, in a way, the more interesting work, explaining as it does where the phenomenon that was Elvis came from and mapping the cultural streams that fed his musical and performing styles. This volume is the second half of Guralnick’s biography of the legendary singer. Elvis hurls down a track of self-destruction that is harrowing and, one feels, so unnecessary. You know what’s coming and wish you could do something about it, but you can’t. Reading Peter Guralnick’s Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley is like watching a train wreck about to happen. Book Review: CARELESS LOVE: THE UNMAKING OF ELVIS PRESLEY (by Peter Guralnick) : AH CloseĬARELESS LOVE: THE UNMAKING OF ELVIS PRESLEY, by Peter Guralnick, Little, Brown and Company, 784 pages, $27.95.
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