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In her preface to From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir, Riley Keough explains that her mother Lisa Marie Presley had tried to write an autobiography, and that she had recorded herself talking about her past on audiotapes, but she had been unable to complete the project.
Then, just before her tragic death in January 2023 at only 54, Lisa went to her daughter and asked for help. The result of that, Riley writes, was this book, which contains alternating passages from the two women, each telling the story of Lisa’s life from their own perspectives. As she prepared the manuscript, Riley says she left what her mother said on tape relatively intact, with some editing for clarity.
The result is a very short book, especially for how many years are covered, coming in at only 287 pages. It became available online Tuesday morning at midnight, and we devoured it pretty quickly yesterday, struck by how little Lisa had managed to get down. Riley says, for example, that there was an entire decade — from Lisa’s divorce from Michael Jackson in 1996 until her marriage to Michael Lockwood in 2006 — about which she had said or written virtually nothing, and Riley had to fill that entire chapter of the book herself.
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Then, just before her tragic death in January 2023 at only 54, Lisa went to her daughter and asked for help. The result of that, Riley writes, was this book, which contains alternating passages from the two women, each telling the story of Lisa’s life from their own perspectives. As she prepared the manuscript, Riley says she left what her mother said on tape relatively intact, with some editing for clarity.
The result is a very short book, especially for how many years are covered, coming in at only 287 pages. It became available online Tuesday morning at midnight, and we devoured it pretty quickly yesterday, struck by how little Lisa had managed to get down. Riley says, for example, that there was an entire decade — from Lisa’s divorce from Michael Jackson in 1996 until her marriage to Michael Lockwood in 2006 — about which she had said or written virtually nothing, and Riley had to fill that entire chapter of the book herself.
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In her preface to From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir, Riley Keough explains that her mother Lisa Marie Presley had tried to write an autobiography, and that she had recorded herself talking about her past on audiotapes, but she had been unable to complete the project.
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