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    Elvis Presley

    Written by Bobbie Ann Mason

    Narrated by Karen White

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    About this audiobook

    PEN/Hemingway Award-winner Bobbie Ann Mason turns her acumen on one of twentieth-century America's most mysterious icons, The King himself. This new biography eschews sensational speculation to paint a thoughtfully researched but wholly felt portrait of the man-child who metamorphosed into a hero, one of the most popular and least supported characters in American history. In 1955, at age 20, Elvis provoked his first near-riot when he sang at a baseball park in Jacksonville. Inspired by black gospel quartets and mentored by producer Sam Phillips, Elvis blended hillbilly music with rhythm and blues in a synthesis that defined a new direction for popular music. Mason's book gets at the consciousness of the icon and of the cultural climate that made him one.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateSep 6, 2002
    ISBN9781415912232
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    Elvis Presley
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    Bobbie Ann Mason

    Bobbie Ann Mason is the author of a number of works of fiction, including The Girl in the Blue Beret, In Country, An Atomic Romance, and Nancy Culpepper. The groundbreaking Shiloh and Other Stories won the PEN Hemingway Award and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the American Book Award, and the PEN Faulkner Award. Her memoir, Clear Springs, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won two Southern Book Awards and numerous other prizes, including the O. Henry and the Pushcart. Former writer-in-residence at the University of Kentucky, she lives in Kentucky.

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    • 4/5
      It is a nice children's book. Definitely a classic. But reading it as an adult I didn't find it anything amazing. I think the people who recommended it just remember their fond memories as kids. If you are an adult and have never read it before and are planning to read it for yourself, I would say skip it.
    • 5/5
      great classic!
    • 5/5
      In the book Stuart little, Stuart goes on many adventures. For instance he was in a model boat race, he saved his mom's ring down the drain, and he is thrown out in the trash. Margalo is a friend of Stuart. One day she gets a letter that tells her that she is in danger. She flies away, and Stuart looks for her. On the way Stuart meets people, and briefly is a substitute teacher. I liked this book because it had adventures. I recommend this book to people who like adventure.
    • 5/5
      Delightful little story - Stuart is so sweet and polite. Sad that the ending came too soon, I would have liked to follow him on his travels as he journeyed north.
    • 5/5
      This tattered, fading, former library copy of Stuart Little was recently uncovered hiding away in my parents' attic. I remember it fondly from my childhood, and am glad to once again have it in my possession.How can you not love Stuart Little? A small, mousy boy (literally!) born to human parents who constantly finds himself in one adventure after another. From sailing a model ship in Central Park, to almost being permanently lost at see, and even nearly dying several times within his own home; Stuart has quite the thrilling life. Then, he eventually takes this show on the road when his first real friend, a bird named Margalo, takes off for parts North.It's been so long since I gave this one a read, I had forgotten the serious tone of the book. Although, being from E.B. White I shouldn't be surprised. Still, it makes the book that more enjoyable to return to as an adult.
    • 3/5
      Although the adventures of the mouse, Stuart Little, were fun and adventurous, as an adult reading the story to my grandchild, the adventures seemed to have no real thread and hopped from one thing to another and there was not real thread or "moral to the story." Not really one that I would choose again.
    • 3/5
      What a lesson for a children's book (especially by the author of everything-is-possible Charlotte's Web!) - if your canoe is ruined and your plans upset, throw a tantrum and give up, despite your date's willingness to improvise.
    • 4/5
      A great book for kids!
    • 3/5
      Weird as it may sound, this books reminds me of reading Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. Content differences notwithstanding, they are both stories where I really loved the beginnings, but felt like they lost steam the more they went along. In Jar, the point where it tapers off is when Esther Greenwood leaves New York. Here, it is where Stuart Little leaves his family without saying goodbye. This really bothered me because the whole first half is built upon the relationship with his parents, brother, cat, etc. While I get that Little needs to evolve as a character by leaving home (like a person does), the fact that he just disappears to find Margalo felt unlike him. That being said, if I were to revisit this book, it would likely be only up to the point when he leaves home.
    • 3/5
      Pretty cute. Found the fact that the mother has a mouse baby a little disturbing. Everyone just accepts it. He even teaches school. It just ends very abruptly.
    • 2/5
      "Stuart Little" was a strange book with characters I couldn't connect to. Sadly, it lacked the emotional pull and literary beauty of "Charlotte's Web" by the same author.
    • 3/5
      I feel like I need to take off points for the ending. I thought I was missing a chapter it was so abrupt. It was an enjoyable collection of tales, though (it was not a smooth narrative, however).
    • 4/5
      Who would like to be "Chairman of the World?"Why, Stuart Little of course, by E.B. White; (4*)This little family mouse is nobody's dummy and has adventures galore. Stuart is part of a family of 4. The 2nd child, he has an older brother who is human like their parents. But Stuart doesn't feel as if he is any the less for being a mouse. He is able to save many a day for mother, father & brother. The cat doesn't even bother him.But when a little bird comes in and lives with the family for a time, Stuart must be on watch for he fears (and rightly so) that Snowbell the cat may just go after the bird who has become a friend to Stuart.A charming little story and yet one I had not previously read. My children all read it but it is not one that I shared with them and I wish I had. I recommend this 140 page children's novelette to all children, old & young alike. It's a lovely little story.
    • 3/5
      When Stuart is born into the Little family, the first thing they notice is that he is quite mouse-like. As they rig their house to accommodate their new very small addition (including pulleys, ladders, and crazy contraptions), Stuart finds his place within their family and the world, even though it is not quite what he expected it to be. I think my favorite part is all the crazy gadgets they create so that he can be self sufficient (that is what I remembered most from reading this when I was younger). I think the fact that there was a very small girl, too was a little weird, but then again the idea that a mouse could be born in a human family is also quite weird. Very imaginative!
    • 4/5
      I actually didn't read this until I read it to my children so I wasn't able to read it from a child's perspective. But this one delighted me most when Stuart was on his own--it's a great lesson to children that no matter how small you are, you are capable of great things.
    • 1/5
      Before I say why I hated Stuart Little so much, let me first say that Charlotte's Web is a favorite of mine. I have loved other books involving talking animals too. I'm not bothered by talking animals. I am somewhat bothered by books that don't have an actual plot, but just randomly wander through unrelated events in the characters lives, but I can forgive that as well. Ginger Pye was a book like this, and I rather enjoyed it. But I am not a young adult. I am a 50 year old who loves reading young adult novels. I may have loved Stuart Little had I read it when I was 8. But as an adult, I simply found it stupid.It was filled with nonsense. It's not just that Stuart is a mouse... he is the actual birth child of human parents! He is supposed to be a child, but behaves in all ways like an adult. All animals talk, and all humans can carry on conversations with them. Someone gives Stuart an actual gasoline powered mouse sized automobile, which is silly enough... but that automobile has a button to make it invisible! This serves no purpose whatsoever other than to provide two or three pages of nonsense, with Stuart and the man who made the car chasing a miniature invisible car around an office. It never comes into play again. Stuart encounters a two inch tall woman. A human woman, 2 inches tall. The book ends with Stuart driving in his car in search of a bird he met earlier in the book. And it just ends, leaving me feeling that E.B. White was about as tired of this absurd book as I was so he just quit writing it mid-story.Again, a young child may love it. And maybe an adult who loved it as a young child would have a nostalgic fondness for it. But as an adult reading it for the first time, it sunk to the bottom of my YA novel barrel.
    • 3/5
      I did not actually read this as a child - Charlotte's Web is the only White book I read then. But I was curious, because this is a big favorite for a lot of people. It's well written - but ultimately doesn't go anywhere. It spends a lot of it's time freaking the reader out that Stuart is a in a lot of danger, then getting him out of that danger. I don't have any strong feelings about it, so it's not like it could let me down, but it's not nearly as good as Charlotte's Web. I didn't see the movie - but I do like Michael J. Fox, so maybe I will someday.
    • 3/5
      Loved it as a kid, but reading it to my kids now to find out the ending was rushed and many plot points were left unresolved. Disappointed.
    • 3/5
      What a lesson for a children's book (especially by the author of everything-is-possible Charlotte's Web!) - if your canoe is ruined and your plans upset, throw a tantrum and give up, despite your date's willingness to improvise.
    • 4/5
      A great book for kids!
    • 4/5
      This 1945 children's classic was indeed enjoyable and whimsical, about a baby who is born to the Little family and is somewhat unusual in that he is about two inches in height and looks very much like a mouse. But he settles down into the Little family, loved and cared for like any other boy, and has various adventures with model boaters and the family cat and a tiny gas-powered car and a beautiful bird who is taken in by the family. When Margalo, the bird, disappears one night (the implication is that she was devoured by a wayward cat), Stuart goes off into the world on his own to search for her. It is here that the story takes on an unfinished feeling, with Stuart meeting a lonely and pretty girl his own height, but leaving her to continue his search. And here the story ends, with Stuart taking up his search again, somehow confident he is traveling in the right direction. All in all, I liked the movie better, a rare thing for me to say.
    • 4/5
      In my opinion, Stuart Little, is a wonderful and classic beginning chapter book for many young students! In my placement this semester, I have been working in a 2nd grade classroom with a small group of students who were reading Stuart Little. Actually witnessing the book being used in a classroom was a great experience to have after reading the book myself. The plot is organized and paced, with great suspense and conflict to keep the students engaged. Stuart goes on a journey into the outside world to find his friend, Margolo. The language is very descriptive, with a lot of vocabulary for new learners. For example, "When Mrs. Frederick C. Little's second son arrived, everybody noticed that he was not much bigger than a mouse. The truth of the matter was, the baby looked very much like a mouse in every way." The writing is more challenging; with complex ideas in condense sentences. Overall, the author created a wonderful story about loyalty and friendship, featuring a little mouse! The big idea of Stuart Little is growing up, family life, and the importance of friendship.
    • 3/5
      When the Littles go to an orphanage to adopt a new family member, their son, George, insists on a little brother as opposed to a big one. His request is honored more literally than he ever imagined when a charming young mouse named Stuart is chosen. While George is disappointed and initially unwelcoming to his new brother, the family cat, Snowbell, is even less enthusiastic at the prospect of having a mouse as his "master" and plots to get rid of him. Against these difficulties, Stuart resolves to face them with as much pluck, love and courage as he can muster. In doing so, he shows his beloved new family that great things can truly come in small packages.
    • 5/5
      What's not to love about this wonderful classic about a mouse who is adopted into a human family. Stuart Little is about a small mouse that is adopted by a human family, but they love him just as much as their human son. Stuart finds that as a mouse he has many adventures in a day. His family finds it a bit stressful and worrisome, but Stuart finds it fun and adventuresome. When Stuart's friend, a bird, Margalo is missing from her nest Stuart decides to find her, no matter where that adventure may take him. Will he find her? Will he survive the dangers of the big world out there to try and find her?I just loved this book as a kid and as I read it again, I love it even more. This is a wonderful classic kids book that really is one hundred percent pure fun for the reader. I loved everything about this book. The writing is great and very detailed, the characters are fantastic and easy to love, and the pictures are so cute and add to the writing. Wonderful book for all ages!5/5 Stars!!
    • 2/5
      Ho hum. Quick read but found myself annoyed with Stuart Little. That mouse was feeling himself a little too much.
    • 5/5
      I loved this chapter book. I liked that even though it is a chapter book, it also had illustrations for readers to have an idea of what the people and characters looked like. I think the illustrations especially helped when Stuart Little drove around the little yellow sports car. It showed how small it truly was compared to everything else. I also liked the plot because it was about friendship and family. It was a cute story. The big idea is that it is important to make memories because they will last a lifetime.
    • 5/5
      Lovely story. After having seen the animated film, I realized I had never read the children's book. Does the author talk down to his audience? I'm not sure and though I enjoyed it, I was in a rush to finish it.
    • 3/5
      I had never read Stuart Little before. Since I've been working on reading more books to my four-year old son, I decided we would read Stuart Little. Honestly, I thought the premise was kind of dumb. I'm still not sure if the Little's had a baby who happened to be just about exactly like a mouse, or if they found a mouse and, being slightly crazy, thought it was their baby! But, either way, the book is all about little Stuart growing up. It is comprised of several episodes throughout Stuart's childhood that could almost stand alone as stories of their own. Each episode covered a chapter or two of the book, and they were all mostly entertaining. One episode was a boat race, in which Stuart sailed a toy ship. It was full of action and, unfortunately, nautical terms that I had to explain to my son. Technically, I just told him that it had something to do with boats because I didn't know what half of the terms meant either, but it made for some slow reading!

      I didn't really care for Stuart's personality. While he seemed to care about certain people and things, he was all-too-ready to throw them away when something more important came up, or when things just didn't go his way. But in the end, what ruined the entire experience was the ending. I suppose many people that have already read the book think that the ending was genius, that Stuart had "grown up" or something. To me, it was just too abrupt.
    • 4/5
      Another good read aloud! I couldn't believe that I hadn't read it before...although I had an aversion to reading books with boys as the main characters in my younger days, so that may account for it.

      My favorite words... "Swamps where cedars grow and turtles wait on logs but not for anything in particular; fields bordered by crooked fences broken by years of standing still; orchards so old they have forgotten where the farmhouse is." Beautiful!
    • 4/5
      Fun book as a child.