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I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
by Earle, Steve
- Used
- Condition
- Used - Like New
- ISBN 10
- 0618820965
- ISBN 13
- 9780618820962
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Used - Like New. 2011. Small publisher's mark on bottom of text block. Otherwise, Fine.
Synopsis
Doc Ebersole lives with the ghost of Hank Williams—not just in the figurative sense, not just because he was one of the last people to see him alive, and not just because he is rumored to have given Hank the final morphine dose that killed him. In 1963, ten years after Hank's death, Doc himself is wracked by addiction. Having lost his license to practice medicine, his morphine habit isn't as easy to support as it used to be. So he lives in a rented room in the red-light district on the south side of San Antonio, performing abortions and patching up the odd knife or gunshot wound. But when Graciela, a young Mexican immigrant, appears in the neighborhood in search of Doc's services, miraculous things begin to happen. Graciela sustains a wound on her wrist that never heals, yet she heals others with the touch of her hand. Everyone she meets is transformed for the better, except, maybe, for Hank's angry ghost—who isn't at all pleased to see Doc doing well. A brilliant excavation of an obscure piece of music history, Steve Earle's I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive is also a marvelous novel in its own right, a ballad of regret and redemption, and of the ways in which we remake ourselves and our world through the smallest of miracles.
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- Bookseller
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C26611
- Title
- I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
- Author
- Earle, Steve
- Book Condition
- New
- Binding
- Trade Cloth
- ISBN 10
- 0618820965
- ISBN 13
- 9780618820962
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- This edition first published
- 2011-05-12
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