Black Elvis: Stories

by Geoffrey Becker

Book Overview

In this funny, touching collection about music, identity, liars, and love, Geoffrey Becker brings us into the lives of people who have come to a turning point and lets us watch as they take, however clumsily, their next steps.

In the title story, an aging black singer who performs only Elvis songs despite his classic bluesman looks has his regular spot at the local blues jam threatened by a newly arrived Asian American with the unlikely name...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082034219X
• ISBN13: 9780820342191
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 8.1"