I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive (novel)

I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
Author Steve Earle
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date
 May 12, 2011
Pages 256
ISBN 978-0-618-82096-2

I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive is Steve Earle's first novel, entitled after a Hank Williams song.

It was published the spring of 2011. The novel is set in San Antonio, Texas in 1963, and tells the story of a defrocked doctor and morphine addict. The doctor makes a living by performing illegal abortions and is haunted by the ghost of Hank Williams, with whom he was traveling when Williams died of an overdose.[1] The novel is published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Billboard, January 24, 2011 http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/473451/steve-earle-explores-mortality-on-new-album-and-novel-talks-treme
  2. ↑ Press Release, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/titledetail.cfm?titleNumber=694084&searchString=steve%20earle


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