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But where is the line between memory and imagination, between nonfiction and the telling of a good story? In the mostly true stories that make up \u003ci\u003eNot Even Immortality Lasts Forever\u003c\/i\u003e, Ed McClanahan intrepidly tests the limits of that distinction.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This gathering of fiction-infused autobiographical stories opens in the postwar 1940s with the sudden, brief appearance of an itinerant street performer in McClanahan's sleepy rural Kentucky hometown, an elderly bicyclist whose artistry seems, to the fourteen-year-old narrator, almost divinely inspired. Subsequent stories trace McClanahan's uneasy but ultimately tender relationship with his no-nonsense \"\"bidnessman\"\" father and, simultaneously, his growing awareness of his own calling as a writer. McClanahan writes his way into the fabled Stanford University Creative Writing Program and forms lasting friendships with Ken Kesey and his then-notorious cohort, the Merry Pranksters.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e After returning to Kentucky in the 1970s, McClanahan published his long-awaited novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Natural Man\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1983, the first of seven well-received books. In 2019, he was inducted into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"This may be Ed McClanahan's best book yet. Never again can I say that I don't laugh out loud-or walk around reciting to the closest human-while reading a book. This memoir belongs on the same shelf as Nordan's \u003ci\u003eBoy with Loaded Gun\u003c\/i\u003e and the works of David Sedaris. 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The tale begins in 1950, the year he turned 17 and, from there, McClanahan is off and running, describing characters from his eventful life with affectionate and precise detail. There s the summer he spends on a road crew in Yosemite National Park, striving (with ever-decreasing degrees of success) to be faithful to his college sweetheart back home. There s the McClanavanthe 68 VW Microbus that took McClanahan and his new bride on a 14,000-mile trek in search of honky-tonks. There s the 1969 peace demonstration at Stanford University that was less a revolution than a traffic jam. 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