Biggest Elvis: A Novel
1996 novel by P. F. Kluge / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Biggest Elvis, also known as Biggest Elvis: A Novel,[1]is a novel[2] written by the American author P. F. Kluge, a former U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in the Pacific region[3] and writer-in-residence at Kenyon College.[4] This 1996 literary piece started out as a journalistic writing for Playboy magazine, to illustrate the nightlife in brothels and nightclubs when fleets of American naval servicemen dock for sailors' shore-leave[2] in the port of Olongapo City.[4] It is also a portrayal of the entrapment of poverty-stricken residents of Olongapo within a "military economy" through the nightly and ritualistic on-stage rebirths, deaths and resurrections of Elvis Presley by three American copycats living and making a livelihood while in the Philippines.[5]
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Author | P. F. Kluge |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Fiction |
Publisher | Penguin |
Publication date | 1996 |
Pages | 341 |
ISBN | 0-14-025811-6 |