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"ELVIS" |
Pick an Elvis, any Elvis at all. There's the mythic bad boy mimed, most recently, by Nicolas Cage in Wild at Heart. There is the great white whale with the red neck harpooned by Albert Goldman in his notorious unauthorized biography. Or there is the sweet prince of dreams...
At least all those folks called him by his name. For Mark Childress, Elvis is Leroy Kirby. The name is a down-home rendering of the French for Presley's nickname, "the King," but that's about the extent of the trouble taken to adjust the facts for fictional purposes...
Kirby has all the Elvis baggage: a doting mom, a ne'er-do-well dad, a hardscrabble life in Tupelo, Miss., and a heart full of . . . well, fury. Leroy's mad about being poor, mad about his daddy, mad about the kids who laugh at him. He sets out to...
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