Down At The End Of Lonely Street

Down At The End Of Lonely Street

Elvis Presley, of the curled lip and rotary hip, was arguably the most famous entertainer of the twentieth century. But what about Elvis, the private man -- the son, friend, and lover? Here, for the first time, is Elvis Presley in his less public Elvis, the dirt-poor school boy; Elvis, the devoted son whose bond with his addictive mother endured beyond her death. Elvis, the eighteen-year-old virgin who became a modern-day Elvis, the husband and father, pressured to marry Priscilla Beaulieu or face a scandal that would ruin him. Based on documents only recently made public and hundreds of interviews with Elvis's closest friends, DOWN AT THE END OF LONELY STREET delves beneath the sensational surface of a celebrity icon to emerge with a searing portrait of a complex man. Well researched recounting of the life and death of Elvis. (The Atlanta Journal)