Overview
A good story has a mind of its own; it seeks its truth the way water seeks its own level. But where is the line between memory and imagination, between nonfiction and the telling of a good story? In the mostly true stories that make up Not Even Immortality Lasts Forever, Ed McClanahan intrepidly tests the limits of that distinction.
This gathering of fictionāinfused autobiographical stories opens in the postwar 1940s with the sudden, brief appearance of an itinerant street performer in McClanahanās sleepy rural Kentucky hometown, an elderly bicyclist whose artistry seems, to the fourteenāyearāold narrator, almost divinely inspired. Subsequent stories trace McClanahanās uneasy but ultimately tender relationship with his noānonsense ""bidnessman"" father and, simultaneously, his growing awareness of his own calling as a writer. McClanahan writes his way into the fabled Stanford University Creative Writing Program and forms lasting friendships with Ken Kesey and his thenānotorious cohort, the Merry Pranksters.
After returning to Kentucky in the 1970s, McClanahan published his longāawaited novel, The Natural Man, in 1983, the first of seven wellāreceived books. In 2019, he was inducted into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame.
āThis may be Ed McClanahanās best book yet. Never again can I say that I donāt laugh out loudāor walk around reciting to the closest humanāwhile reading a book. This memoir belongs on the same shelf as Nordanās Boy with Loaded Gun and the works of David Sedaris. What a great, comical joyride by a largeāhearted man.ā āGEORGE SINGLETON
This book title, Not Even Immortality Lasts Forever (Mostly True Stories), ISBN: 9781640092600, by Ed McClanahan, published by Catapult (February 18, 2020) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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