{"product_id":"black-elvis-geoffrey-becker-9780820342191","title":"Black Elvis: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this funny, touching collection about music, identity, liars, and love, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. In \"Man Under,\" two friends struggling to be rock musicians in Reagan-era Brooklyn find that their front door has been removed by their landlord. An aspiring writer discovers the afterlife consists of being the stand-in for a famous author on an endless book tour in \"Another Coyote Story.\" Lonely and adrift in Florence, Italy, a young man poses as a tour guide with an art history degree in \"Know Your Saints.\" And in \"This Is Not a Bar,\" a simple night on the town for a middle-aged guitar student and jazz buff turns into a confrontation with his past and an exploration of what is or is not real. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his depictions of struggling performers, artists, expectant parents, travelers, con-men, temporarily employed academics, and even the recently deceased, Becker asks the question, Which are more important: the stories we tell other people or the ones we tell ourselves?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Geoffrey Becker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 082034219X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820342191\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.20w x 0.70d","brand":"Geoffrey Becker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44598254665983,"sku":"9780820342191","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f05c0433-a156-44a5-a21f-897a24a2e483.jpg?v=1702381470","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/black-elvis-geoffrey-becker-9780820342191","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}