From Here to the Great Unknown (Oprah's Book Club)
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER ¿ NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ¿ OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK ¿ Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole story for the first time in this raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir faithfully completed by her daughter, Riley Keough.

A PEOPLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR


In 2022, Lisa Marie Presley asked her daughter to help finally finish her long-gestating memoir.

A month later, Lisa Marie was dead, and the world would never know her story in her own words, never know the passionate, joyful, caring, and complicated woman that Riley loved and now grieved.

Riley got the tapes that her mother had recorded for the book, lay in her bed, and listened as Lisa Marie told story after story about smashing golf carts together in the yards of Graceland, about the unconditional love she felt from her father, about being upstairs, just the two of them. About getting dragged screaming out of the bathroom as she ran toward his body on the floor. About living in Los Angeles with her mother, getting sent to school after school, always kicked out, always in trouble. About her singular, lifelong relationship with Danny Keough, about being married to Michael Jackson, what they had in common. About motherhood. About deep addiction. About ever-present grief. Riley knew she had to fulfill her mother's wish to reveal these memories, incandescent and painful, to the world.

To make her mother known.

This extraordinary book is written in both Lisa Marie's and Riley's voices, a mother and daughter communicating-from this world to the one beyond-as they try to heal each other. Profoundly moving and deeply revealing, From Here to the Great Unknown is a book like no other-the last words of the only child of an American icon.
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From Here to the Great Unknown (Oprah's Book Club)
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER ¿ NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ¿ OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK ¿ Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole story for the first time in this raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir faithfully completed by her daughter, Riley Keough.

A PEOPLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR


In 2022, Lisa Marie Presley asked her daughter to help finally finish her long-gestating memoir.

A month later, Lisa Marie was dead, and the world would never know her story in her own words, never know the passionate, joyful, caring, and complicated woman that Riley loved and now grieved.

Riley got the tapes that her mother had recorded for the book, lay in her bed, and listened as Lisa Marie told story after story about smashing golf carts together in the yards of Graceland, about the unconditional love she felt from her father, about being upstairs, just the two of them. About getting dragged screaming out of the bathroom as she ran toward his body on the floor. About living in Los Angeles with her mother, getting sent to school after school, always kicked out, always in trouble. About her singular, lifelong relationship with Danny Keough, about being married to Michael Jackson, what they had in common. About motherhood. About deep addiction. About ever-present grief. Riley knew she had to fulfill her mother's wish to reveal these memories, incandescent and painful, to the world.

To make her mother known.

This extraordinary book is written in both Lisa Marie's and Riley's voices, a mother and daughter communicating-from this world to the one beyond-as they try to heal each other. Profoundly moving and deeply revealing, From Here to the Great Unknown is a book like no other-the last words of the only child of an American icon.
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From Here to the Great Unknown (Oprah's Book Club)

From Here to the Great Unknown (Oprah's Book Club)

by Lisa Marie Presley, Riley Keough

Narrated by Riley Keough, Julia Roberts

Unabridged — 5 hours, 42 minutes

From Here to the Great Unknown (Oprah's Book Club)

From Here to the Great Unknown (Oprah's Book Club)

by Lisa Marie Presley, Riley Keough

Narrated by Riley Keough, Julia Roberts

Unabridged — 5 hours, 42 minutes

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If you've ever wondered what it's like being the only child of a legend, take it from Lisa Marie Presley in her own words. Alongside her own daughter, this is Lisa's story, straight from the source.

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER ¿ NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ¿ OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK ¿ Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole story for the first time in this raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir faithfully completed by her daughter, Riley Keough.

A PEOPLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR


In 2022, Lisa Marie Presley asked her daughter to help finally finish her long-gestating memoir.

A month later, Lisa Marie was dead, and the world would never know her story in her own words, never know the passionate, joyful, caring, and complicated woman that Riley loved and now grieved.

Riley got the tapes that her mother had recorded for the book, lay in her bed, and listened as Lisa Marie told story after story about smashing golf carts together in the yards of Graceland, about the unconditional love she felt from her father, about being upstairs, just the two of them. About getting dragged screaming out of the bathroom as she ran toward his body on the floor. About living in Los Angeles with her mother, getting sent to school after school, always kicked out, always in trouble. About her singular, lifelong relationship with Danny Keough, about being married to Michael Jackson, what they had in common. About motherhood. About deep addiction. About ever-present grief. Riley knew she had to fulfill her mother's wish to reveal these memories, incandescent and painful, to the world.

To make her mother known.

This extraordinary book is written in both Lisa Marie's and Riley's voices, a mother and daughter communicating-from this world to the one beyond-as they try to heal each other. Profoundly moving and deeply revealing, From Here to the Great Unknown is a book like no other-the last words of the only child of an American icon.

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Instead of tap dancing around the hard parts, we’re drilling into the bedrock. We hear less from Presley and more from Keough, who comes across as level headed, valiant and kind. . . . Keough approaches the episode with respectful levity, the best tool available to members of a dysfunctional family. . . . Presley still gets a word in here and there, and these passages show how determined she was to stand up to her demons.”The New York Times

“When her actor daughter, Riley Keough, writes that she wants Lisa Marie to emerge from the pages of the memoir as a ‘three-dimensional character’, she’s not kidding . . . it’s clear that Presley was nothing if not radically honest. It’s also striking how Keough seems to almost plead with the reader to understand and love her mother as much as she does. Ultimately, this is a book built on grief: Lisa Marie Presley’s for her father and son, but also a daughter’s for her mother.”The Guardian

“The book is of two minds: It’s an unadorned, conversational memoir that’s more matter of fact than gossipy, little interested in preserving what her father’s biographer Peter Guralnick once called ‘the dreary bondage of myth.’ And it’s a frank, almost unbearably heavy meditation on grief. . . . Stunningly candid . . . Both women write gracefully about the unbearable, immovable heaviness of grief. Keough’s portrait of her mother in her final months is especially indelible. ‘I had mistakenly thought she was so strong-minded that nothing could ever truly hobble her,’ she writes. ‘But of course it could. Enough pain can hobble anyone.’”The Washington Post

NOVEMBER 2024 - AudioFile

Julia Roberts narrates the late Lisa Marie Presley's writing, and Presley's daughter, the actor Riley Keough, shares her own memories of her mother. Clips of interviews with Presley are interspersed throughout this incredible listening experience. Elvis Presley's only child enlisted her daughter to help tell her story just one month before she died. Keough's voice is beautiful--whisper-soft and at times hollow with sadness--as she shares an intimate look at her mother's life. Roberts does a fantastic job capturing the essence of Presley's writing, her voice bright and excited while describing the fun Presley had as a child at Graceland before Elvis died. Roberts provides a clear, easy-to-follow voice that contrasts with Presley's fast, sometimes slurred words, which can be difficult to discern. A.L.C. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine

Kirkus Reviews

★ 2024-10-08
Sharing a mother’s life and essence in an openhearted, unmediated way.

The title of this book is a lyric from “Where No One Stands Alone,” one of the songs Lisa Marie Presley recorded as a duet with archival tapes of her father, Elvis Presley. Now her daughter, Riley Keough, has done something similar, using material that her mother recorded in the last years of her life, before her death at 54 in 2023. Transcribing and editing the tapes, Keough adds commentary and fills in the blanks, noting in a preface that her mother “was constitutionally incapable of hiding anything from me.” The two voices are printed in different fonts in the book, which works well. Lisa Marie shares powerful memories of her father, who died when she was nine, from wild times in golf carts at Graceland to the day his lifeless body was carried away. Her teenage years were shaped by the hands-off approach of her mother, Priscilla Presley, who dropped her at the Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre to be taken care of. She shares interesting details of her relationships with husbands Danny Keough, Michael Jackson, Nicolas Cage, and Michael Lockwood. The story of her and Jackson falling in love, bonding over the wildly abnormal lives they share, reveals a side to the man rarely seen. The toll taken by the suicide of Keough’s younger brother Ben in 2020 is expressed by both authors; from then on, Lisa Marie’s own death was something of a foregone conclusion. If his mother felt that, both by nature and by nurture, “Ben didn’t stand a fucking chance,” then she was equally cursed: “I guess I didn’t really have a shot in hell.”

A moving portrait of a life lived on the further reaches of the bizarre planet of American celebrity.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940160399812
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Publication date: 10/08/2024
Edition description: Unabridged
Sales rank: 200,236
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