''I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive'' is

Steve Earle Stephen Fain Earle (; born January 17, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, author, and actor. Earle began his career as a songwriter in Nashville and released his first EP in 1982. Initially working in the country music g ...

's first novel, entitled after a

Hank Williams Hank Williams (born Hiram Williams; September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. Regarded as one of the most significant and influential American singers and songwriters of the 20th century, he reco ...

song; Earle released an album of the same name, also in 2011. 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.Billboard, January 24, 2011 http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/473451/steve-earle-explores-mortality-on-new-album-and-novel-talks-treme The novel is published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.Press Release, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/titledetail.cfm?titleNumber=694084&searchString=steve%20earle

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2011 American novels Novels set in Texas Novels set in the 1960s Fiction set in 1963 Culture of San Antonio San Antonio, Texas in fiction 2011 debut novels Houghton Mifflin books {{2010s-hist-novel-stub