There were so many times that I found him down on the floor or unable to control his body very well,” Lisa Marie Presley writes of her father, Elvis, in her posthumous new memoir.

Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll, died unexpectedly in August 1977 at his Graceland estate at the age of 42. While the world was devastated by the sudden loss, Lisa Marie, who was just nine years old at the time, had a feeling that her father's days were numbered.

That was always evident as Lisa Marie Presley clumsily searched for love and contentment in her abbreviated life. But in Presley’s raw new memoir “From Here to the Great Unknown” (Random House,