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“When I was flying back from Lubbock,
I saw Jesus on a plane,
or maybe it was Elvis, y’know they kind of look
the same.”
Don Henley – “If dirt were dollars.”
We all know that Elvis Presley has been dead
for thirty years – don’t we?
When dead-beat author Kevin Redman thinks he
sees Elvis on a plane, this becomes more than
just an academic question – it becomes a quest
that tears his life apart.
Kevin is drifting through his thirties, on
the verge of the ultimate mid-life crisis – bad
marriage, bad job, thwarted ambitions – when he
spots Elvis.
Neglecting job, wife and family, Kevin
begins a desperate search for The King in the
arid suburbs of Phoenix, Arizona.
His wife thinks he’s having an affair, his
brother-in-law is plotting to get him fired,
and his best friend thinks he’s lost it, but
Kevin is obsessed.
The path to The King isn’t easy – Kevin is
mistaken for a peeping tom, captured by an S
& M gang, and stalked by a deranged local
hunter, but he finally finds Elvis, living in a
gleaming Silver Stream trailer at Cactus Jack’s
Motel Park.
Face to face at last with Elvis, Kevin must
face up to his past in order to allow his
future to emerge.
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