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Elvis Tribute: And Other Incredible Stories
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781539072799
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Dec 10 2016
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.36 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
From the world of Elvis tribute performers to the streets of Memphis, Hollywood, Detroit, Savannah, Rome, Atlantic City, and the Bonneville Salt Flats, this collection takes readers on a lively journey where fact and fiction constantly cross paths.
In Elvis Tribute and Other Stories, author djv murphy combines personal experience, extensive research, imagination, humor, and adventure to create a collection of stories filled with memorable characters and unexpected turns.
For the title story, Murphy went beyond ordinary research. He traveled to Canada to experience an Elvis tribute competition firsthand-the performers, the excitement, the spectacle, and the personalities behind the jumpsuits and sideburns. That sense of authenticity carries throughout the book as the stories move across America and overseas, each with its own setting, mystery, humor, and surprise.
Some of these tales are rooted in real events. Others spring from imagination. Often, the line between the two is deliberately difficult to find.
Along the way, readers encounter unusual people, strange circumstances, moments of comedy, flashes of suspense, and endings that may cause them to reconsider everything they have just read.
And beneath the entertainment lies something more. Each story offers its own observation about people, choices, ambition, luck, loyalty, or the unpredictable turns life can take.
Which stories really happened? Which were invented? And can you tell the difference?
That is part of the challenge-and part of the fun.
Elvis Tribute and Other Stories is an entertaining collection for readers who enjoy Americana, travel, colorful characters, humor, mystery, surprising twists, and stories that refuse to fit neatly into the category of either fact or fiction.
Step inside, enjoy the journey, and decide for yourself what is real.
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