Doc Ebersole lives with the ghost of Hank Williams—not just in
the figurative sense, not just because he was one of the last
people to see him alive, and not just because he is rumored to have
given Hank the final morphine dose that killed him.
In 1963, ten years after Hank''s death, Doc himself is wracked by
addiction. Having lost his license to practice medicine, his
morphine habit isn''t as easy to support as it used to be. So he
lives in a rented room in the red-light district on the south side
of San Antonio, performing abortions and patching up the odd knife
or gunshot wound. But when Graciela, a young Mexican immigrant,
appears in the neighborhood in search of Doc''s services, miraculous
things begin to happen. Graciela sustains a wound on her wrist that
never heals, yet she heals others with the touch of her hand.
Everyone she meets is transformed for the better, except, maybe,
for Hank''s angry ghost—who isn''t at all pleased to see Doc doing
well.
A brilliant excavation of an obscure piece of music history,
Steve Earle''s I''ll Never Get Out of This World Alive is also
a marvelous novel in its own right, a ballad of regret and
redemption, and of the ways in which we remake ourselves and our
world through the smallest of miracles.
關於作者：
STEVE EARLE is a singer-songwriter, actor, activisit, and the
author of the story collection Doghouse Roses. He has released over
a dozen critically acclaimed albums, including the Grammy winners
The Revolution Starts Now, Washington Square Serenade, and Townes.
He has appeared on film and television, with celebrated roles in
The Wire and Treme. Frequently interviewed and profiled in
the press, he often tours with his wife, singer-songwriter Allison
Moorer.
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