A savagely brilliant novel of apocalypse, redemption, and rock 'n' roll by the acclaimed author of Ambient, Terraplane, and Heathern. Elvissey is the story of a troubled couple who voyage across time on a desperate mis sion--to kidnap the young Elvis Presley and make him a demigod in a decadent urban future.
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A savagely brilliant novel of apocalypse, redemption, and rock 'n' roll by the acclaimed author of Ambient, Terraplane, and Heathern. Elvissey is the story of a troubled couple who voyage across time on a desperate mis sion--to kidnap the young Elvis Presley and make him a demigod in a decadent urban future.
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Add this copy of Elvissey to cart. $3.46, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1993 by Tor Books.
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Book shows shelf & handling wear, including some light corner wear and cover creasing. Pages are slightly worn on their edges, text intact and unmarked. Good reading copy. Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled.
Add this copy of Elvissey: a Novel of Elvis Past and Elvis Future to cart. $4.75, good condition, Sold by Bookmarc's rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from La Porte, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1992 by Tor/Tom Doherty Associates.
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Good. No Jacket as Issued. CE2-A trade paperback withdrawn ex-library book in good+ to very good-condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with minor overall shelf wear plus there are the usual library labels, stamps, and pocket on the spine, right outside paper edges, title page, and back endpaper plus there is some surface scratching on the front cover plus there is plastic tape reinforcing the right covers' edges. A novel that is a combination of satire, adventure, and science fiction/speculative fiction in which a couple voyage across time to kidnap the young Elvis Presley in order to make him a demigod in a decadent urban future. By the author of "Ambient, " "Terraplane, " and "Heathern." 319p.
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Near Fine. Book At once brilliant satire and taut, fast-paced adventure, Elvissey is the story of a troubled couple who voyage across time on a desperate mission--to kidnap the young Elvis Presley at the dawn of his career, and make him a demigod in a decadent urban future. Very minimal wear, no spine creases, clean throughout, tight binding. First Edition, First Printing.
Jack Womack took on a huge subject in Elvissey and I think he fell a little short of the mark. When you write a novel with a big icon like Elvis, you?d better have a big story to go with it. Womack tells a good Sci-Fi story--he has some original ideas on the subject of alternate realities/multiple universes, time travel, and language?but the story is a little bit better than average and it doesn?t pack much of a wallop. In the dystopia of Elvissey corporate America rules everything. The country has been blighted by war and environmental catastrophe. The Dryco corporation reconfigures (regoods) everything including people to suit its image and needs. Our Heroine Iz and her husband are chosen to go back in time to kidnap a young Elvis and bring him back as a demi-god and pawn for the Dryco Corporation. One of the troubles with the book is the language that Womack has the characters use throughout. It?s a kind of corporate abbreviated doublespeak. At first I found it tedious. As I read the dialogue, I sometimes felt like I was reading the last decoded messages of a beleaguered secret agent trapped behind enemy lines. Its annoying to have to read a sentence two or three times to figure out what?s going on in the story. Things went better for me when I learned the trick of quickly scanning the dialogue to get a general understanding of what a character was saying. When our heroes find Elvis he talks normally, thank God, but that?s all that?s normal about him. He is a psychopath who has no real notion of his potential as a singer. We don?t see Elvis until at least a third of the way through the book. Iz and her husband take Elvis back to DrycoLand, but Elvis has trouble adjusting to the new environment. So he is essentially a non-entity for the last third of the book. That was another disappointing feature of the book. Elvis isn?t the Elvis we know. He comes from another alternate reality not related to our own. So the author reinvented Elvis for the story. It would have been difficult to realistically portray Elvis the cultural icon of TV and movies on the printed page and give him the appropriate dimension and stature. I think Womack took the easy way out instead of giving his readers the Elvis of lore. To summarize I would say this is a good story with some original ideas, but the language and Psycho Elvis are a bit of a letdown.
