Elvis and Me Author:Priscilla Beaulieu Presley with Sandra Harmon Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu were together fourteen years. This is Priscilla Presley's powerful and poignant story of her life with the most successful entertainer of all time. — When they met, she was an innocent fourteen-year-old girl, someone he could mold to his own ideas. He taught her everything - how he wanted her to walk, wear mak... more »eup, style her hair, dress, behave and how to make love his way. In the course of time, he came to be her friend, lover, father, husband and, very nearly God.
It is a love story unlike any other - of a man determined to create the perfect woman, and of the woman herself, torn between love for her husband and her own need for personal growth and self-respect.
The narrative moves with epic sweep from Bad Neuheim, Germany, where Priscilla and Elvis feel in love, to Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Memphis, Las Vegas, and Hawaii, where Priscilla blossomed and eventually became Mrs. Elvis Presley and the mother of their child, Lisa Marie.
This is a love story full of heartbreak as well as tender feelings. Theirs was a deep relationship and they struggled to survive the fast and tragic events shaping their different destinies. Countless adjustments were necessary. Elvis was not an ordinary man and therefore could not lead an ordinary life. As for Priscilla, it was an eternal dilemma, reconciling her existence in Elvis's world with reality outside of that bubble. Above all, it is a story that could have been written only by the woman who lived it - Priscilla Beaulieu Presley.« less