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The Sunday Herald Books of the Year.
Chosen by Dan Rhodes, author. `Squalid, raucous and wildly
entertaining'
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Elvis is the premier Elvis impersonator in the whole of the Cambridgeshire region. He's fat and bald and old; partial to cocaine, he sells skunk to the local teenagers; he masturbates five or six times a day, and he hates Elvis Presley. Elvis has been married three times, but, as he says, never for very long. He finds being Elvis a useful way into the beds of Cambridgeshire's bored housewives. Elvis's life starts to go wrong when his backing singers, Gay Elvis and Fat Elvis, mutiny. They love Elvis Presley and want to sing the songs in historical sequence. He replaces them with Buddy Holly, a postman with bladder problems, but the new arrangement is not without its difficulties. Then Eddie calls to offer the biggest gig yet of Elvis's career. Eddie, a gay gangster who 'looked after' Elvis on one of his stints in prison, wants him to perform at the birthday party of Johnny Brooks, another gangster, even more vicious, who just happens to be married to Elvis's third ex-wife. Without question, the best Elvis-impersonator novel you'll ever read, "Hound Dog" is very very funny and really quite sad. It marks the debut of a formidable new writer.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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A belter of a dark comedy that rattles along faster than the King of Rock and Roll managed to down deep-fried hamburgers. I don't particularly like Elvis and I didn't much like the main character either but I still wanted to know what was on the next page. Some books with unlovable main characters overdo the bleak and depressing aspects, but not this one. Could be destined for cult status, especially amongst the lads. Thankyouverymuch.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I had expected a whimsical and quirky British comedy in the vein of Robert Rankin but what I got was a totally original, venomous, unbelievably rude, deeply tragic and exceptionally honest and very funny book. Imagine the works of Bret Easton Ellis and JG Ballard having all the pretension squeezed out of them and then replaced with Jerry Sadowitz's humour and a dash of scorcese's Goodfellas...and you sort of get somewhere in the right ballpark. Brilliant.
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I didn't know what to expect when I bought this book. On the face of it a book about an Elvis impersonator doesn't sound like too much, but I can honestly say that this is the funniest book I have ever read.
It tells the tale of a cocaine and masturbation addicted ex con known only as Elvis (you never get to know his real name) who, with his two backing signers Fat Elvis and Gay Elvis, takes his disastrous Elvis show around Cambridgeshire and hates every minute of it. Like the line from the Manics' song he is overweight and out of date and to make matters worse..... he knows it. Elvis has to keep his show going though because it affords him other more interesting things like funding his coke habit and sleeping with loose middle aged housewifes.
Things change for the worse when his Elvis mobile gets trashed at gig and he is forced to go cap in hand to Eddie, a vicious gay gangster that Elvis met in prison, in order to buy a new van and honour his up and coming gigs. The problem is, Eddie doesn't want the money back, he wants the three Elvis' to perform at the birthday party of another notorious gangster. This sounds easy enough, but it really isn't. I won't go into what happens from that point on but let's just say it's a page turning, calamitous, violent and drug fuelled tale that will make you laugh out loud.
I hope to see a small screen adaptation of this very soon, in the meantime I await Mr Blandford's next full length work.
Bye peps
It tells the tale of a cocaine and masturbation addicted ex con known only as Elvis (you never get to know his real name) who, with his two backing signers Fat Elvis and Gay Elvis, takes his disastrous Elvis show around Cambridgeshire and hates every minute of it. Like the line from the Manics' song he is overweight and out of date and to make matters worse..... he knows it. Elvis has to keep his show going though because it affords him other more interesting things like funding his coke habit and sleeping with loose middle aged housewifes.
Things change for the worse when his Elvis mobile gets trashed at gig and he is forced to go cap in hand to Eddie, a vicious gay gangster that Elvis met in prison, in order to buy a new van and honour his up and coming gigs. The problem is, Eddie doesn't want the money back, he wants the three Elvis' to perform at the birthday party of another notorious gangster. This sounds easy enough, but it really isn't. I won't go into what happens from that point on but let's just say it's a page turning, calamitous, violent and drug fuelled tale that will make you laugh out loud.
I hope to see a small screen adaptation of this very soon, in the meantime I await Mr Blandford's next full length work.
Bye peps
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Uncomfortable fun
Hound Dog plays with the idea of the anti-hero, pushing the Elvis impersonator's unpleasantness almost to the end of its tether; but somehow we retain a glimmer of sympathy for the... Read more
Published on 9 Oct 2009 by Alan Hansen
You Can't Put It Down (Even Though You Might Want To)
Reading this book is like watching bad accident: you want to look away, but you just have to see what transpires. Read more
Published on 4 Oct 2009 by Marsha Moore
Perfect gift for any man with a strong stomach
Laughed out loud, gagged with revulsion, almost cried at the end and felt shellshocked throughout. Would make a great british movie - have fun casting it in your head as you... Read more
Published on 12 Jan 2007 by Sockpuppets
Buy it!
Im not really fiction lover and in all honesty brought this book thinking it was something else!
It was great!.... Funny really wierd but funny! Read more
It was great!.... Funny really wierd but funny! Read more
Published on 17 Oct 2006 by P. Banham
bloody marvellous
This really is one of the most unusual books I've read (I mean, Elvis impersonators?), and definately one of the best this last year. Read more
Published on 5 Sep 2006 by David Dixon
It's only my opinion...
My review isn't to be as in depth as the fantastic and accurate ones below, but I do want to give my opinion anyway. I got a proof copy of this book and read it over 3 days. Read more
Published on 12 Aug 2006 by Charly
Elvis is all shook up
Picture Elvis; what do you see? A coke-snorting, sexually-obsessed self-professed psychopath, who sells skunk to teenagers, has no respect for the vows of marriage and harbours a... Read more
Published on 7 Aug 2006 by Madly Bobbington-Blythe
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