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Lädt ... Hound Dog (2007. Auflage)von Richard Blandford
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"Elvis is the premier Elvis impersonator in the whole of the Cambridgeshire region. He's fat and bald and old; partial to cocaine, he sells skunk to the local teenagers; he masturbates five or six times a day, and he hates Elvis Presley. Elvis has been married three times, but, as he says, never for very long. He finds being Elvis a useful way into the beds of Cambridgeshire's bored housewives. lvis's life starts to go wrong when his backing singers, Gay Elvis and Fat Elvis, mutiny. They love Elvis Presley and want to sing the songs in historical sequence. He replaces them with Buddy Holly, a postman with bladder problems, but the new arrangement is not without its difficulties. Then Eddie calls to offer the biggest gig yet of Elvis's career. Eddie, a gay gangster who 'looked after' Elvis on one of his stints in prison, wants him to perform at the birthday party of Johnny Brooks,another gangster, even more vicious, who just happens to be married to Elvis's third ex-wife. ithout question the best Elvis-impersonator novel you'll ever read, Hound Dog is very very funny and really quite sad. It marks the debut of a formidable new writer." Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The star is Elvis, a fading Presley impersonator with a dark and unsettling past. However disturbing that past, it's nothing compared to what happens to him in the course of this novel. Hound Dog is one hell of a brutal book. There is murder. There is savage violence. There is gratuitous masturbation (but... isn't it all gratuitous?) There is sex, drugs, and yes, plenty of rock 'n' roll, though none of it is remotely glamorous - this Elvis even hates the King he sings. Then it gets dark. I was shocked at how dark. That scene by the swimming pool in the middle of the night? I really didn't see that coming. And yet... it's also curiously uplifting and had me crossing my fingers for a glimmer of regal redemption till the very last page. For all his flaws, this Elvis is a likable (I wouldn't go so far as to say lovable) rogue, and the author keeps you rooting for him throughout. Even when he kicks the shit out of Buddy Holly...
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