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In this REVISED AND UPDATED version of her 1994 hardcover, Joyce Bova has written an additional chapter, which most revealingly chronicles her personal life before and after Elvis. She also discusses the Presley/Nixon meeting and reiterates the real reason behind Elvis’s visit to Washington, D.C. Additionally, there are dozens of digitally enhanced color photographs. Many of them are new and were not in the original book, along with some that were. She has added a postscript divulging some events she neglected to include in the hardcover, as well as a very touching P.P.S.
Joyce is an identical twin. Elvis was born an identical twin. Joyce shares her innermost thoughts, and Elvis’s, about his conflicts in coping with the absence of his twin and how severely it impacted his life.
It started out like a fairy tale. She was a beautiful, hardworking Congressional aide. He was America’s most explosive entertainer. They met one night in Las Vegas in 1969…a night that changed Joyce’s life forever.
Now Joyce reveals all about her love affair with Elvis Presley. From the glittering public stages of Las Vegas to Elvis’s Graceland palace…glamorous celebrity parties to steamy hotel room trysts…from Joyce’s pregnancy with Elvis’s child to her agonizing decision to finally walk out on the “King.” DON’T ASK FOREVER is the intimate true story of two star-crossed lovers—and a revealing portrait of an Elvis Presley you’ve never seen before…and will never see again.
Joyce Bova worked for the U.S. House of Representatives for thirty years, serving mostly on the staff of the Armed Services Committee. In addition, she is an award-winning ballroom dancer who still performs and teaches dance with her husband, and occasionally with her twin sister. She now lives in Northern Virginia with her husband.
William Conrad Nowels is a novelist and screenwriter, as well as the author of articles on American politics and culture for the Baltimore Evening Sun. He lives in New York City.
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- Published on: 2015-08-17
- Released on: 2015-08-17
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From Publishers Weekly
Bova supplies a new perspective on Elvis. No Graceland groupie she, the author was a Capitol Hill staffer on the Armed Services Committee when she met Presley in 1969 in Las Vegas during her vacation. She was unprepared for "how beautiful he was." The fraught and erratic love affair that followed lasted till 1972. Bova, writing with freelancer Nowels, draws a portrait of this larger-than-life star, surrounded by sycophants, drifting into drug abuse and yet still sensitive to his fans. Also intriguing is the fact that Bova struggled to stand up to the "King," to keep her job and her independence. Looking back she sees the star in a softer light than many tale tellers, stressing that he was "devoutly religious and believed in family values." But she also details how Elvis pressured her to take narcotics until she in turn became addicted. It all makes seductive reading, although one questions Bova's 100% recall of conversations and passing thoughts after more than two decades. Even taken with the obligatory grain of salt, this is a piquant and smoothly written addition to the Elvis canon. Photos not seen by PW. First serial to National Star; Doubleday Book Club featured alternate; Literary Guild alternate.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Here's a novel idea: a book about someone who knew Elvis Presley. At least Bova knew him in the biblical sense, which adds a little spice to what otherwise is as slight and silly as a Presley movie. Act one: Joyce Bova, 24-year-old Priscilla Presley lookalike who works on Capitol Hill, goes to Las Vegas where a backstage meeting with the King sets hearts fluttering. Act two: well, the flap copy says it best: "In a whirlwind romance that swept her from the corridors of Congress to the secluded verandas of Graceland, Joyce jeopardized her career and defied her strict Catholic upbringing to be with her lover." Act three: Bova gets pregnant, but when she tries to tell Elvis the news, he gives her his take on motherhood: mamas don't have sex after the baby is born. (Readers of Priscilla Presley's book will recall that the King suffered from an industrial-strength dose of the whore/madonna complex.) Act three, continued: Bova has an abortion, but that doesn't save a relationship riddled with too many drugs. As with so many who knew Elvis, Bova apparently has total recall of every conversation she ever had with the man. There's not much to remember, really, but it beats Bova's own musings on life: "I sat there by myself in the dark and thought and dreamed and fought that lonely battle we fight against our own insecurity, against the icy inner terror that freezes your guts and makes you shrink back from the big scary world out there." It may freeze your own guts to buy this book, but if there are Presley fans in your neighborhood--and there are--you have no choice. Ilene Cooper
From Kirkus Reviews
Bova, a staff member of the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee, reveals all she knows about Elvis, but her subject has been so intensely overexposed that even the most intimate details sound familiar. In 1969, in Las Vegas, Bova and a friend were hand-picked from a line of waiting show-goers to meet Elvis backstage. Bova believes that her instant rapport with the King grew out of the fact that she is a twin, as Elvis was, although his brother died at birth. Thus began her three-year relationship with a man who was obviously troubled and affected by giant mood swings. Though her own personality remains in the background, Bova manages a no-nonsense outlook and explains that she stood by her man because of love, even though he was married and had complete disregard for her career. Presley had some odd ideas about women: He was so insistent on purity that she hesitated to inform him that she was not a virgin (``In a way he was right, it would be `new' for me,'' she thought about her prospective sexual experience with him), and when Bova was pregnant (unbeknownst to him), he explained that once a woman had given birth he could no longer be attracted to her (she subsequently had an abortion). Presley's addiction to sleeping pills was a constant problem, but Bova had trouble confronting him about it and took them herself at his insistence. Bova also outlines the King's spiritual side, which involved vague, self- important beliefs that he was teaching people through music and that he was ``put here on earth to serve a special purpose'' with his unique powers. A somewhat pathetic portrait of the entertainer limping toward death. (16-page photo insert, not seen) (First serial to National Star; Literary Guild alternate selection) -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Forever in Blue Jeans
By Kevin Killian
Reading Elvisologist Allana Nash's recent book on the women who loved Elvis (BABY LET'S PLAY HOUSE), I became interested in Nash's account of Elvis's love affair with Joyce Bova, a Washington DC woman of whom I had never before heard. Nash provides quite a lengthy synopsis of the major events in this hush hush top secret romance, and I liked what I saw, so I bought I used copy of Bova's own memoir and dove right in. In a way, this turned out to be a mistake, since Nash had definitely given the highlights, but in eight pages instead of the 386 pages in the Bova book. But all I can say is, if this is how you like it, it's served up well in DON'T ASK FOREVER.
Nash had it right, Joyce was a pretty girl all right, but what cinched it for her with Elvis was the fact that she had a twin sister. We all know that the death of little Jesse was the central event in Elvis' life, and Joyce met him at a time ripe with spiritual renewal for Elvis, right at the time when he was beginning to fantasize of himself as a religious leader born to bring comfort and healing to billions. The twin thing, like a ribbon of celluloid film, somehow played in and out of the Jungian fantasies preoccupying him the early 1970s. He was one of twins, as was she: maybe they were meant to be together. In addition she was the twin, or nearly so, of his wife Priscilla, with whom he was still living an empty lie (or so says Bova). In fact when they went out together, fans always hurt Joyce's feelings by mistaking her for Priscilla and pestering her for autographs.
Twin-ness also haunts the book in terms of the Bobbie Gentry mystery. The charismatic country singer and songwriter was an acquaintance of Elvis at just this period, and now it turns out, that nearly every photo hitherto thought of to be picturing Elvis and Bobbie Gentry is, in actuality, a photo of Elvis and Joyce, who had to keep her love life a secret from the probing eyes of Capitol Hill, where she worked for the Armed Services Committee for the House of Representatives. We never do hear too much about her job, but Elvis had no compunction about calling Nixon and asking of Joyce could take a few days off here or there to visit him in Graceland or in Vegas.)
She soon became addicted to heavy drugs, under Elvis' tutelage. He particularly favored nembutal-like dolls when embarking on a bout of lovemaking, drugs so strong they put Joyce in a twilight sleep, barely able to tell where she was or where her body ended. This part of the book was the most compelling. Also we do get some glimpses into Elvis at the recording studio, especially during the making of the 1070 Christmas album. We see him leafing through dozens of demos, and Joyce is credited with persuading the King to record "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," which became "their song," and which she was always pleading with him to sing to her alone in concert.
Joyce got to meet most of the insiders in Elvis Presley's life, even being awarded an audience with the spooky, old, weird "Dodger" (Elvis' grandma Minnie.) Dodger is just plain obsessed. "A woman should have plenty of children. Then maybe you get lucky and one of 'em turns out good. I had five. None of 'em turned out too good, 'cept Vervon... cause he made Elvis." Elvis had fond memories of Ann-Margret (not the tortured ones other biographers would have us believe in) and not so fond ones of current co-star Mary Tyler Moore. Elvis had specialty shoppers on call who would bring literally dozens of pairs of shoes and boots at a time to his home, to let the King shop in peace. In one touching scene, Joyce points Elvis towards a pair of tan boots he might otherwise have rejected. She was important to him in little things, but as he always told her, don't ask forever,
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
A modern-day fairy tale......
By A Customer
Joyce Bova's account of her time with Elvis was a moving, but realistic, romantic tale of two different worlds. She is believable when she recounts her emotions, her fears, her hopes and dreams. The resemblance between Ms. Bova and Priscilla Presley is uncanny. And Joyce's intuition about Elvis is unbelievable. The heartbreak, the highs and the lows that she faces in her relationship with Elvis are ones that all women who have been in love can relate to. Joyce is a romantic, but a realist also. She is a strong lady, who does not resort to pity to interest an audience. She tells it like it is, warts and all.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Well written, easy read and throughly enjoyable.
By A Customer
Joyce and I have been very close friends for about 20 years, so I have known of her relationship with Elvis. Although I admit to not being an Elvis 'fan', I have always admired his talent and ,in many ways, the man she described him to be. I am an avid reader and though my choice of reading material would not be on Elvis, I had to read my friend's memoir.
I admire Joyce and admire her contribution in an intelligently written yet heart-warming book. The countless readers who feel they know Elvis will garner a greater insight into this complex man. I know Joyce and that is enough for me to respect and appreciate the candor and sincerity with which she wrote her book. I am not alone when I say that Joyce is a down-to-earth, forthright, sweetheart of a person who is still stunningly attractive and vivacious. (Joyce is also a very talented ballroom dancer who still performs and teaches out of her own dance studio.) More importantly, Joyce cares deeply about her friends. In particular, she cared very much about her depiction of the intimately personal relationship she shared with Elvis. I believe she has done so with an open heart and a sincere desire to fill in this gap of Elvis' life
After turning the last page of Joyce's book, anyone (man or woman)will go away feeling a real connection with her and an understanding of the extraordinary man she knew so well.
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