I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Skylight Books presents musician, actor, and author Steve Earle for a reading at the Bootleg Theater from his novel I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive, with a book signing to follow.

THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT LOCATED AT THE BOOTLEG THEATER. Tickets are $10 and are available here.

"Steve Earle brings to his prose the same authenticity, poetic spirit and cinematic energy he projects in his music. I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive is like a dream you can't shake, offering beauty and remorse, redemption in spades." --Patti Smith

"What a delight to read this novel and find so many elements I've admired in Steve Earle's songwriting for nearly twenty-five years. It is a rich, raw mix of American myth and hard social reality, of faith and doubt, always firmly rooted in a strong sense of character." --Charles Frazier, author of Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons

STEVE EARLE is a singer-songwriter, actor, activist, playwright, and the author of the story collection Doghouse Roses. He has released more than a dozen critically acclaimed albums, including the Grammy winners The Revolution Starts Now, Washington Square Serenade, and Townes. He has appeared in film and on television, with notable roles in The Wire and Treme. He is married to singer-songwriter Allison Moorer.

Photo of the author by Ted Barron.

I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive (Hardcover)

By Steve Earle

$26.00

ISBN-13: 9780618820962
Availability: In the Warehouse (Usually ships to store or customer in 2-7 days. Call for time-sensitive orders)
Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 7/2011

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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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