"Winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction", Black Elvis collects "a dozen of stories" into a collection that could best be described as a handbook for people trying to find themselves.
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 Robert Johnson.
«These are wonderful stories, both humorous and deadly serious, and sometimes with a touch of magic as well. If you think you don´t know these characters--in all their variations--you surely will before you are halfway through a page» -- Elizabeth Strout author of Olive Kitteridge
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"Winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction", Black Elvis collects "a dozen of stories" into a collection that could best be described as a handbook for people trying to find themselves.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 Robert Johnson.
«These are wonderful stories, both humorous and deadly serious, and sometimes with a touch of magic as well. If you think you don´t know these characters--in all their variations--you surely will before you are halfway through a page» -- Elizabeth Strout author of Olive Kitteridge