| | Dr Shady Cosgrove with the poster she used while busking her way across the US to Graceland for the 25th anniversary of Elvis presley’s death. Her booked about the journey, She Played Elvis, has just been published by Allen and U... | |
Book follows Shady’s journey to find Elvis – and herself
7 September, 2009
UOW Creative writing lecturer Dr Shady Cosgrove celebrated the release of her new book She Played Elvis with launches in Wollongong and Sydney over the weekend.
The book – a memoir of a journey Shady made to her American homeland after emigrating to Australia – has just been published by Allen and Unwin.
Described as a “classic road story – a journey of self-discovery set to an Elvis soundtrack”, the book tells of Shady’s pilgrimage from her mother’s home on a...
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