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The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that reveals the intimate story of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley, told by the woman who lived it.

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE PRISCILLA, DIRECTED BY SOFIA COPPOLA

Decades after his death, millions of fans continue to worship Elvis the legend. But very few knew him as Elvis the man. Here in her own words, Priscilla Presley tells the story of their love, revealing the details of their first meeting, their marriage, their affairs, their divorce, and the unbreakable bond that has remained long after his tragic death.

A tribute to both the man and the legend, Elvis and Me gives Elvis fans the world over an unprecedented look at the true life of the King of Rock 'N' Roll and the woman who loved him.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berkley; Reprint edition (August 1, 1986)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0425091031
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0425091036
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.19 x 0.94 x 6.88 inches
Reviewer: Jessica Stover
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A beautifully written book
Review: I loved this book! I listened to the audiobook while reading along since Priscilla Presley narrates it herself. She did such a wonderful job telling their story from the time they met (she was only 14) until Elvis passed away. Her writing style is simple and real, she is soft-spoken and it feels like she's having a conversation with you rather than reading her book. I loved how often she laughed throughout the book while telling stories, and how she changed her voice when narrating dialogue for other characters. This was such a beautiful memoir about her love and life with Elvis Presley.

Reviewer: Ashley
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great book
Review: My daughter loves this book. She's read it twice. Definitely a great read.

Reviewer: Ry
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Intresting
Review: Its very intresting to see the skewed prespective of Priscilla and what she wants the public to think about her, honestly its a great book to phycoanilize, pretty inacurate (do some reasearch from diffrent sources that were close to cillia and elvis and its clear she lies alot) its just so intresting to see what she thinks. Also yes, she was a victim, Elvis dating her at like, what, 14-15?? Nasty. Just a terrible pair all together. Id reccomend doing reasearch thats not this book (Her daughters book is coming out soon, you should get it to see how terrible cilla was) if you want accuracy. Also very cute cover, no wonder this book blew up on tiktok.

Reviewer: Edmond L. Suek
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Powerful Message
Review: I gave this book a five-star rating because of its content. The book has a powerful message and I wanted a copy for my coffee table to constantly remind me of the message's importance. The book is well-written, fast-moving, and extremely interesting. It was hard to put down. I am an author and have purchased 100s of books. I always buy 6-inch x 9-inch or larger hardback or softback. I was very disappointed when I received a 4-inch x 7-inch pocket paperback from the bookseller.

Reviewer: MARILYN S BOYER
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Understanding the dynamics of the marriage of Elvis and Priscilla Presley
Review: I just finished reading this book and although I never married a famous man too preoccupied to be a true husband and father I can relate to a man who had no idea nor need to be a husband in ways that truly mattered. God said marriage was given for a man and a woman to become one in flesh, to not deny the other from coming together as man and wife but for man to love his wife as Christ loved the church which was so much that he suffered and died for the salvation of each of us. To honor and cherish one another and to replenish the earth. Jesus Christ is the true fulfillment of the life he wanted for God's creation and He thought of everything, He also knew our lives and the pain we endured so God wrote the 10 commandments, the last 5 pertain to how we are to treat one another, it's a shame it's rarely read today and mainly ignored even by some so called Christians who follow their own wants.Below I read a long scathing review of veamous hatred and vile contempt for Cilla as Elvis called his child Love age 14, married at her age 21 living together for years without intercourse until their wedding night when she became pregnant with Lisa Marie. Her comments from below are either in love with the image and fame of Elvis, or unaware of what marriage is and has no idea how living such a lonely unrewarding life Cilla endured for so many years that it kills all self esteme and self confidence and a life of self controlled loneliness and physical needs that bring about so much self condemnation for not being enough. not pretty enough not what he wanted and not who he loves and the suspitions of his infidelity and Elvis had a childish me life from being an only and coddled child who could do no wrong and excused without fault if he did. She had a far greater understanding of their love and never grew bitter in this completely controlled life together. At 14 1st love is so all consuming that it's never completely forgotten, as they say one never forget's their 1st love, true real love, and that is fact and It's not an offence to either party it's just the way it is and has nothing to do with further love and commitment nor takes away from that future.As I read this book there was so much I could relate to and helped me understand better my own experience's in my 80 years. I was the most obedient perfect wife and Mother, ever faithful, ever forgiving ever mindful to stay faithful no matter what and I did. But I suffered badly inside for my much wounded heart that craved so much the attention of my husband so long suffering and so unrewarding and so needed not only the emotional but the physical starvation of my so called marriage. He came home every night, was not a drinker nor a womanizer nor physically abusive, no drugs were involved that was not our era, we pretty much married for life, men pretty much did as they pleased and wives pretty much were faithfu, loyal and long suffering, it was just life to endure. I yearned to be loved and cherished it was something I looked forward to from childhood and all I ever truly wanted. I was attractive with a good personality high IQ and talants so that was never the problem as I had much to offer and much to give and gave freely. To me husband and family was my entire world that I wanted and needed. After birth within a week or 2 my body returned to it's former nice figure, that was never a problem. I think Priscilla had and felt those same qualities and did the very best she could against a lot of odds most of us never encounter. Of course they had fun, he being 10 years older and she being so young, she a disciplined oldest child, Elvis being coddled and excused, a huge difference in forming adulthood and understanding boundaries and the values therein. I was preteen when Elvis gained immense popularity and influence, my parents were playing cards downstairs while us kids were upstairs waiting to go home and bed the 1st time I was aware Elvis existed as one of the girls had torn her straw to write the word Elvis on her dresser. I said what's an Elvis, laughed at for my ignorance and informed "only the biggest and best singer in the world!" I was still watching black and white TV shows starring Rickey Nelson who I thought was pretty cute, but not being an idol worshipper famous people were just a different world. Of course we had a TV, the 2nd family on our street to own one, tiny screen with lots of cartoon mice flying out of chimneys and everywhere in a house. I preferred my sandbox under the huge oak tree that smelled so good and the fresh unpolluted wind that cooled me in the summer under the shade of that huge oak tree, I ran my fingers over the bark feeling it's roughness and the silky feel of the leaves through my fingers that fell around me as seasons began and faded. The youngest and least of 4 kids from a poor family I had little expectations beyond the beauty of the earth, my sandbox and maybe 2 cars to play with at most, maybe it was only one, I was 2 as I was later told when we moved there in Ohio and Dad built me my sandbox, 5 years younger than my next sibling up 12 years from the oldest sister who viewed me as the living doll baby she loved. Dad worked long hours, Mom to so being alone was normal. All 6 of us lived in a small 2 bedroom house initially with no bathroom, furnace or hot water, Dad 1st put in an under the house furnace, a big grate over it where we all took our baths in an oblong copper tub with handles, I was last in line for the now dirty water. Then Dad built a block bathroom with toilet sink and hot water tank, I don't remember a tub or shower and I was 9 when we moved so there must not have been one. I say all this so you understand how I was raised.I met my 1st love on my 15th birthday when we moved to the country, he was 3 years older, I sang at his graduation and as young girls do I fell in love with him from a distance, he did not know I existed, but several kids came to my birthday party a few weeks after we moved to our new home on an acre my grandpa built for us. It was a short lived party in the below house garage cause my Dad turned my little turn table with built in speaker so low we couldn't hear it so everyone left except him who sat with me on the wood bench while I cried in so much humiliation and hurt feelings, he stayed for hours just holding me. It was many months later before he finally asked me out and we quickly became THE outstanding couple then got engaged but my parents wouldn't let us marry, perhaps because they married at our ages at the time and talked him into joining the Navy for 4 years no less, to get rid of him I figured later, he joined and left within a week which pretty much effected our end. We wrote and I lived for his leave's but he got to being home many days before calling me then the last leave as a couple I saw him less than 15 minutes out of a weeks leave time, a last minute thought I guess, I was so hurt and many things crossed my mind, I still wore my ring and he as usual wrote 3 letters a day of love and future but I wondered how could we have a future if he spent his leave with who ever instead of even calling me for days or last time minutes before going back to the Navy? I cried my heart out over that last year and half before I broke it off in a letter. It didn't mean the love died, I don't think it ever did for either of us but too many questions in my hurting mind heart existed. My parents moved to Lauderdale where I was immediately swarmed with suiters, I had been in Ohio but everyone knew I was faithful to one and only one. I said all this to say I had understanding to how Cilla felt those years between the romance in Germany, months and years between phone calls and letters. I waited at the window every day for the mail truck to run, even our mailman asked me out when the letters stopped. Being the last to leave home and my lonely life of rejection from birth I chose a suiter and married him, he died shortly after our daughter was born, I got with child 3 weeks 5 days after marriage. I moved back home when she was 4 mo's old, my parents followed within months, I had rented a tiny 2 car garage turned into a doll house in a great area and for some crazy reason they moved in on me before I could spend one night in my little 1 bedroom home! Why me? They evicted their renters got their house back and begged me to move with them back home using my daughter as bait, she would be home with Mom not shuffled from baby sitter to my house after work, I finally agreed but my death benefits were autmatically put in their account and my paychecks seemed to always go to Mom as she had shopped for my daughter to the penny so I came home to their room having her new clothes every week on the bed and handing over my paycheck. Gas and lunch came out of meager tips working the counter in a drug store and my wardrobe was threadbare. I was making the house payment and the utilities and my mothers spending habits while I was pennyless and my baby had more clothes and toys than the store did, but somehow those clothes went back to the store for refunds. I married again and am still married to that man. It only took him from age 77 to just under 80 to realize how he always treated me so poorly and became the good husband, so I missed out on most of my life hungaring for love and normalcy and the dreams we all have, to be loved as we love, to be close and happy, not rich, just close and happy. Because of my life I understand why Cilla finally left to build her own life, she was about 30 years old with her daughter to still raise, not poor by any means, divorce terms were not disclosed but Elvis was always known as a generous man and no doubt took care of his child love and his child financially as he should have. Cilla went on to save Graceland from ruin out of love for Elvis and his family, she remained very good friends and always loved the husband who had rules what a woman should be. He did shape her and raise her to be , denial, the perfect stay at home wife, keep the home fires burning and never question any affairs with other women. He had a life he wanted and enjoyed to the fullest, and I have no doubt of his insecurities either, many of us do but most won't admit to, he never wanted for the warmth of a woman nor the loneliness nor did he consider this as husband and Father. Much less women would have found solace long long before Priscilla Presley did, and only after she came into her own self awareness and some hard realization of where she stood in her marriage. She never sought after fame and fortune she just deeply loved and still loves a man who had it all. He was not a kid when he met her, he was 24 to her 14. She was a quiet unassuming young attractive girl who never truly experienced life. He hated the Army life of discipline and lack of freedom, she lived it in a military family. He knew her innocense and obedience in life compared to his life of protection and having his way. He probably did love her through it all but it never stopped him from doing exactly what he was used to, being given freedom to do whatever he felt like and with fame and riches the lifestyle that came with it. and he could never allow her to get or think beyond her existence. As he told her in so many ways, never cross me, you'll never win, remember the pillow fight her with a black eye to teach her with a hard placed pillow to her face, him telling her to get out, throwing her clothes and suitcase on the floor her tears, no doubt begging and not understanding what she had done wrong, then to be told she needed to be taught a lesson so she obediently forgave and rushed back into his arms thankful to be given the chance, perfect for him, not perfect for her. To critisize and call her names after reading this book is a horrible injustice. All women envied her from fan's to leading ladies, she had this sought after charming indulgent man. She waited from 14 to 21 to have him make love to her to become pregnant on her wedding night to as soon as pregnancy was known to his standards never make love to a mother, one time after that, time frame unknown to "this is how a real man males love to his woman" which was not sweet by any means just prior to her decision to seek divorce So other than wedding to pregnant discovery to one time to almost rape is not considered a fulfilling marriage of consummation. So by about age 30 years and a life of self denial and realization of the truth of her marriage love aside she made a choice, she had an affair, we don't know how long but not very and she told him she was leaving and why, and did so. Anyone who can condemn her for wanting a life that was more fulfilling than painful loneliness by age 30 has no idea nor wants to understand. Throughout she never condemned him, disobeyed him nor told others, she simply bore it alone and still loves him, remembers the good times and speaks of him in loving and accepted terms. I'm very glad she weaned herself off the prescription drugs she saw that did much more harm to Elvis than help. I too am an insomniac and hate the endless long lonely nights, I understand dreading insomnia. I'm also disabled 21 years with prescriptions I take only as needed rather than as timed. I've lived much physical and emotional pain in my life but intelligent enough to know drugs and booze would never be the answer but likely the undoing of a person. I laude Priscilla for her faithfullness, her deep abiding love, her insights and finally her determination to escape a relationship that was far more painfrul than rewarding, it must have been a gut wrenching decision. She could have stayed and done as she pleased but it wasn't her way nor would he ever allow self indulgenence. But to be honest with herself and the love of her life and he was and always will be the love of her life. She's quite a couragous women who came out unscathed from a life that was not for her. Perhaps he came to realize how much she loved him and obeyed from age 14 his every wish whim and need. I doubt he ever fully comprehended how terribly hurt she was. At age 21 to marry her dream I doubt she thought their love making would basically be nil. The most painful part of marriage is to be neglected and alone in the basics of marriage, the sharing between a man and his wife the glow of love mI more than most do understandaking to the suffering the lack thereof. I lived basically a sexless life not being promiscuous, my 1st husband going into the hospital the morning after I became pregnant, his stay a month long and coming home in a wheelchair that pretty much ended that part of marriage, then remarry 2 years later just turning 20 years old left me pretty much unfulfilled with my sexuality left completely unfulfilled makes me understand much more than most ever experience nor could endure. Love does not conquer all unless it's shared in all the aspects of marriage and marriage is a 2 way street for both to fulfill as meant to be. People are not meant to live their lives unhappy and neglect their God given needs. Priscilla never did remarry because she was a very loyal person who only loved one man her entire life, I hope for her sake she found something in life to sustaine a reasonable semblance to true happiness within.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Elvis and me
Review: Very interesting book by Priscilla..

Reviewer: cess
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: El libro es si es excelente, tamaño de bolsillo, buena impresión, además cuenta con fotografías.La historia de Priscila es una montaña rusa, narra muy bien sus vivencias y la lectura te atrapa. Esta en inglés, eso está perfecto si quieres iniciar tu lectura a este lenguaje.

Reviewer: Joyce
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I recently watched the Priscilla movie, so I ended up downloading this book as an audiobook. I love it so much, that I just bought a paperback copy to give to my mom to read!Perfect for Elvis and Priscilla fans!

Reviewer: Giovana assis
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Tive alguns problemas no processo de entrega mais ok... o produto em ci é ótimo uma gracinha tem fotos e o livro é um pouco menor que o tamanho convencional um pouco frágil também mais no geral chegou bem estou ansiosa pra ler😊

Reviewer: Meryem
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Begendim

Reviewer: Client d'Amazon
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Envoi très rapide et article conforme à la description, ha^te de découvrir la vie de cette femme boulversante de sincérité