I'll never get out of this world alive

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About this book

It's 1963 and in a rented room, in the red-light district of San Antonio, Doc Ebersole lives with the ghost of Hank Williams. Doc, rumoured to have given Hank the final morphine dose that killed him, supports his own morphine habit. Having lost his licence to practise medicine, he performs abortions and patches up the odd knife or gunshot wound. Then, when he meets Graciela, a young Mexican immigrant, miraculous things begin to happen. Graciela heals others with the touch of her hand. Everyone she meets is transformed for the better - except Hank's angry ghost ...

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3.7/5 · 3798 readers · 256 pages · ≈ 4 h 44 m · Moderate

How long does it take to read I'll never get out of this world alive?

About ≈ 4 h 44 m — 256 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.Typical novel≈ 5 h 56 mI'll never get out of this world alive~4 h 44 m

How many pages is I'll never get out of this world alive?

256 pages in its most-read edition.Typical novel320I'll never get out of this world alive256

What genre is I'll never get out of this world alive?

It sits on the Ghost Stories, Fiction shelves.

Is I'll never get out of this world alive in the public domain?

No — it is still under copyright.

Who wrote I'll never get out of this world alive?

Steve Earle.

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