Elvissey Author: Jack Womack
	Book Information Publisher: Tor Books Book Type: Paperback Members Wishing: 0 Rating: 1 ISBN-13: 9780312852023 - ISBN-10: 0312852029 Publication Date: 1/1993 Pages: 319 Book Reviews

Womack astounds and entertains in this adventure featuring a young Elvis Presley kidnapped into a future in which he becomes a deity.

Though the plot suggests the ridiculous, this is, in fact, a deep, often theological, reflection on love, betrayal and commercially inspired nihilism. The narrator is Isabel, a high-level operative for Dryco, a mind-manipulating multinational conglomerate in a parallel future.

Seeing control of various Elvis-worshiping sects as important to its domination of the globe, Dryco sends Isabel and her husband through a "Window" to kidnap young Elvis from another parallel universe. They find the King-to-be of Rock 'n' Roll standing over the body of the mother he has just murdered, and he takes the couple on a bloody road trip through the South before they arrive in Dryco's world.

Though Elvis is happy to have escaped murder charges, his gnostic philosophy makes him a reluctant messiah, and Dryco goes to extremes in convincing him to go public.