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I'll never get out of this world alive

Steve Earle

2011 · EN

It's 1963 and in a rented room, in the red-light district of San Antonio, Doc Ebersole lives with the ghost of Hank Williams. Doc, rumoured to have given Hank the final morphine dose that killed him, supports his own morphine habit. Having lost his licence to practise medicine, he performs abortions and patches up the odd knife or gunshot wound. Then, when he meets Graciela, a young Mexican immigrant, miraculous things begin to happen. Graciela heals others with the touch of her hand. Everyone she meets is transformed for the better - except Hank's angry ghost ...

Editions · 5

Paperback
2011 · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
243 pp · EN
9780618820962
Paperback
2011 · Vintage Uk
243 pp · EN
9781846555084
Paperback
2012 · Vintage
EN
9780099554479
Paperback
2012 · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
256 pp · EN
9780547754437
Paperback
2012 · Ulverscroft
EN
9781444810998

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