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Last Ride to Graceland

door Kim Wright

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Blues musician Cory Ainsworth is barely scraping by after her mother's death when she discovers a priceless piece of rock 'n' roll memorabilia hidden away in a shed out back of the family's coastal South Carolina home: Elvis Presley's Stutz Blackhawk, its interior a time capsule of the singer's last day on earth. A backup singer for the King, Cory's mother Honey was at Graceland the day Elvis died. Yearning to uncover the secrets of her mother's past Cory decides to drive the car back to Memphis and turn it over to Elvis's estate, retracing the exact route her mother took thirty-seven years earlier. As she winds her way through the sprawling Deep South the burning question in Cory's mind is - who is my father?… (meer)
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What an entertaining, fun read! I heard the author read the first few pages at a book signing and she had us laughing from the start. The story continues with her clever humor throughout, tidbits about southern culture as well as what it was like behind the scenes with Elvis at Graceland. Be sure to read the afterword to learn what details were fiction vs. what were researched facts about the King. ( )
  Nancy_LiPetri | Feb 11, 2021 |
Cory has always known that her father isn't her real dad. Her parents never acknowledged it but she figured it out. After all, she was a 9 pound "preemie".
She also knows that her mother was Elvis' back up singer until she fled Graceland days after his death and ran straight to her high school sweetheart.

When she finds Elvis' car in her parents' she'd after her mom's death, she takes off on a trip to Graceland. She wants to find out who her biological father is and all she has to help is a car full of clues.

She follows the trail of clues to Graceland and learns a lot along the way.

Entertaining and it definitely has its moments where I couldn't put it down. I'm not in love with the resolution but I enjoyed the trip. ( )
  Mishale1 | Dec 29, 2018 |
A story embedded with tidbits of Elvis Presley, and a girl's quest for her father. Usually, a coming of age story features a young adult, but Cory is no young adult. Cory has lost her rhythm and hopes to find herself by driving a Blackhawk car from South Carolina to Graceland. The story climbs and sputters throughout the South as Cory makes her way on the backroads that her mother traveled before returning to South Carolina. Cory encounters two men that might be her father, but who stands as the real man in this quest. The story contains rich language and a musical cadence. Many of the minor characters present remarkable insights into human nature. I am happy to see that the characters are not perfect individuals with great hair and fabulous bodies. ( )
  delphimo | May 14, 2017 |
Being a member in good standing of the ‘He Man Woman-Haters Club’ I don’t usually stoop to reading that subgenre commonly referred to as chick lit but after corresponding with author Kim Wright and finding her to be delightful and funny, I figured I would go ahead and give her newest book a try, so I ordered a copy. My resolve waivered a bit when it arrived and I found the cover to be pinker than a flamingo’s tutu but Kim assured me that as the author she had no say in any decisions regarding cover color so I braced myself, wrapped the book in a brown paper cover like mama used to do in grade school, and gave it a go.

It was actually pretty good. For starters, it’s about a road trip. For some reason 2016 seems to be my ear for southern road trip books, what with Carrying Albert Home, Fallen Land, Rivers and Absalom's Daughters: A Novel, and I’ve found that I’ve come to enjoy the way they flow with new adventures arising at every bend in the road. LTtG has the advantage of including one of the coolest cars in existence, a 1973 Stutz Blackhawk, the last car that Elvis Presley (pause for moment of reverent silence) ever drove. Before I started this book my only knowledge of the Stutz Motor Company came from building a model of a 1913 Stutz Bearcat, the stripped-down models with the cylindrical gas tank behind the seats. I didn’t even know the company still existed into my lifetime. But this car is amazing. It’s like if a Lincoln Town Car and a Jaguar got together and had a shiny black baby.

I digress. In short, Cory finds a car that once belonged to her mother, once a back-up singer for Elvis, and set off on a four-state ramble to discover just who she was, or so she thinks. Over the next few days she meets several people who share with her the story of her mama’s trip from Graceland on that fateful night in August 1977.

Ms. Wright spins an imaginative tale full of well-developed characters and does it in a manner that would make her story-telling southern ancestors proud. ( )
  Unkletom | Sep 10, 2016 |
I really enjoyed this book. It bounces back and forth between Cory Beth and her mom Honey when Honey was 19 and a backup singer for Elvis. Honey or Laura, has died 7 months earlier and Cory Beth is a 38-year-old singer who is barely making it. Her father calls and asks for her to mail his waders but don't look in the shed. He mentions the shed several times and so does is buddy who relayed the message. So of course Cory Beth looks. What does she find? A car wrapped in bubble wrap that is obviously one Elvis owned. Now Cory Beth retraces Honey's path from Memphis back home by the trash she finds in the car. Honey's story tells how she became a backup singer to returning back to her hometown pregnant with Cory. Very well written. At first I didn't think it was right that Cory Beth took the car but then I decided it was her birthright since her Mom originally owned it and probably saved it for her. ( )
  MHanover10 | Jul 11, 2016 |
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I was a premature baby who weighed nine pounds and nine ounces.
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Blues musician Cory Ainsworth is barely scraping by after her mother's death when she discovers a priceless piece of rock 'n' roll memorabilia hidden away in a shed out back of the family's coastal South Carolina home: Elvis Presley's Stutz Blackhawk, its interior a time capsule of the singer's last day on earth. A backup singer for the King, Cory's mother Honey was at Graceland the day Elvis died. Yearning to uncover the secrets of her mother's past Cory decides to drive the car back to Memphis and turn it over to Elvis's estate, retracing the exact route her mother took thirty-seven years earlier. As she winds her way through the sprawling Deep South the burning question in Cory's mind is - who is my father?

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