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Sailor & Lula Expanded Edition
The Complete Novels
Häftad, 2019
251 kr
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"The Romeo and Juliet of the South" are back in this new edition of the internationally best-selling Sailor and Lula novels, now including for the first time the culminating novel, The Up-Down , by American master Barry Gifford. "Barry Gifford invented his own American vernacular--William Faulkner …
Cavalry Charges
Writings on Books, Film, and Music, Revised Edition
Häftad, 2019
315 kr
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The Cavalry Charges: Writings on Books, Film, and Music, Revised Edition is a collection of anecdotal reflections that relate many of the experiences that shaped Barry Gifford as a writer. Representative of Gifford’s body of work, this volume is divided into three sections: books, film and …
Out of the Past
Adventures in Film Noir
Häftad, 2000
411 kr
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For both the film buff and the general moviegoer a handbook that unlocks the secrets of a hundred noir movies ""Gifford knows his noir. The essays are better than some of the films he writes about."" - Elmore Leonard For a tour of noir cinema this handbook is the perfect companion and Barry Gifford …
Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac
Av Barry Gifford, Lawrence Lee
Häftad, 2012
367 kr
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Jacka s Book
An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac
Av Lawrence Lee, Barry Gifford
Ljudbok, 2012
820 kr
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The classic and fascinating story of Jack Kerouac, "King of the Beats" and American literary legend, recorded through the voices of his friends and lovers. Authors Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee retraced Kerouac''s life at home and on the road and talked with the prophets, musicians, poets, …
Jack's Book
An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac
Av Lawrence Lee, Barry Gifford
E-bok, 2012
116 kr
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"A fascinating literary and historical document, the most insightful look at the Beat Generation." —Dan Wakefield, author of New York in the Fifties and Going All the Way First published in 1978, Jack''s Book gives us an intimate look into the life and times of the "King of the Beats." Through the …
Cavalry Charges
Writings on Books, Film, and Music, Revised Edition
Inbunden, 2019
1432 kr
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The Cavalry Charges: Writings on Books, Film, and Music, Revised Edition is a collection of anecdotal reflections that relate many of the experiences that shaped Barry Gifford as a writer. Representative of Gifford’s body of work, this volume is divided into three sections: books, film and …
Rooster Trapped In The Reptile Room
A Barry Gifford Reader
Av Barry Gifford, Thomas A. McCarthy m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
205 kr
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"Everything I have to say about race and religion and politics is in the novels," declares Barry Gifford. The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room gathers generous portions of all thirteen novels and novellas, as well as first-person essays, generous helpings of poetry, journalism, and a new …
American Falls
Häftad, 2003
131 kr
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American Falls is the first major collection of short stories from Barry Gifford, master of the dark side of the American reality. These stories range widely in style and period, from the 1950s to the present, from absurdist exercises to romantic tales, from stories about childhood innocence to …
Do The Blind Dream?
New Novellas and Stories
Inbunden, 2004
220 kr
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Do the Blind Dream? shows Gifford at the height of his powers, navigating with ease the new, more fragmented imaginative landscape of morning-after America. Gifford seems to have anticipated themes that suddenly are recognizable everywhere: the fragility of identity; the power of coincidence; the …
Do The Blind Dream?
New Novellas and Stories
Häftad, 2005
145 kr
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Do the Blind Dream? shows Gifford at the height of his powers, navigating with ease the new, more fragmented imaginative landscape of morning-after America. Gifford seems to have anticipated themes that suddenly are recognizable everywhere: the fragility of identity; the power of coincidence; the …
Memories From A Sinking Ship
Inbunden, 2007
220 kr
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Winner of the 2007 Christopher Isherwood Foundation Award for Fiction Reminiscent of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Ernest Hemingway's Nick Adams stories, Memories from a Sinking Ship travels the landscape of a turbulent world seen through a boy’s steady gaze. Like Twain’s Mississippi River and …
Port Tropique
Häftad, 2009
145 kr
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Revolution is simmering in the heat of battered Central American town Port Tropique, where protagonist Franz Hall is an "intellectual Meursault in a paranoid Hemingway landscape, a self-conscious Conradian adventurer, a Lord Jim in the earliest stages of selfwilled failure" (New York Times). The …
Imagination of the Heart
Book Seven of the Story of Sailor and Lula
Inbunden, 2009
232 kr
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The Imagination of the Heart is the final chapter in the saga of Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune, the "Romeo and Juliet of the Deep South." Their story began in Barry Gifford's novel Wild at Heart, which in 1990 was made into a Palme d'Or–winning feature film by David Lynch. Following Sailor’s …
Memories from a Sinking Ship
Häftad, 2009
145 kr
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Winner of the 2007 Christopher Isherwood Foundation Award for Fiction Reminiscent of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Ernest Hemingway's Nick Adams stories, Memories from a Sinking Ship travels the landscape of a turbulent world seen through a boy’s steady gaze. Like Twain’s Mississippi River and …
Sad Stories of the Death of Kings
Häftad, 2010, 12-15 år
182 kr
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Roy is a lover of adventure movies, a budding writer, and a young man slowly coming of age without the benefit of a father. Surrounding him—whether to support him or to drag him under—is the adult world of postwar Chicago, a city haunted by violence, poverty, and the redeeming power of imagination. …
Memories from a Sinking Ship
A Novel
E-bok, 2011
171 kr
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Winner of the 2007 Christopher Isherwood Foundation Award for Fiction Reminiscent of Mark Twain''s Huckleberry Finn and Ernest Hemingway''s Nick Adams stories, Memories from a Sinking Ship travels the landscape of a turbulent world seen through a boy’s steady gaze. Like Twain’s Mississippi River …
Sad Stories of the Death of Kings - YOUNG ADULT EDITION
Inbunden, 2010, 12-15 år
176 kr
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Roy is a lover of adventure movies, a budding writer, and a young man slowly coming of age without the benefit of a father. Surrounding him—whether to support him or to drag him under—is the adult world of postwar Chicago, a city haunted by violence, poverty, and the redeeming power of imagination. …
Imagination of the Heart
Book Seven of the Story of Sailor and Lula
E-bok, 2011
285 kr
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The Imagination of the Heart is the final chapter in the saga of Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune, the "Romeo and Juliet of the Deep South." Their story began in Barry Gifford''s novel Wild at Heart, which in 1990 was made into a Palme d''Or–winning feature film by David Lynch. Following …
Port Tropique
E-bok, 2011
171 kr
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Revolution is simmering in the heat of battered Central American town Port Tropique, where protagonist Franz Hall is an "intellectual Meursault in a paranoid Hemingway landscape, a self-conscious Conradian adventurer, a Lord Jim in the earliest stages of selfwilled failure" (New York Times). The …
American Falls
The Collected Short Stories
E-bok, 2011
160 kr
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American Falls is the first major collection of short stories from Barry Gifford, master of the dark side of the American reality. These stories range widely in style and period, from the 1950s to the present, from absurdist exercises to romantic tales, from stories about childhood innocence to …
Sailor & Lula
The Complete Novels
E-bok, 2011
256 kr
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On the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Barry Gifford''s international bestseller, Wild at Heart, as well as the anniversary of the Palme d''Or–winning film adaptation by director David Lynch, Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels presents all of the novels and novellas that comprise the …
Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room
A Barry Gifford Reader
Av Barry Gifford, Thomas A. McCarthy
E-bok, 2011
256 kr
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"Everything I have to say about race and religion and politics is in the novels," declares Barry Gifford. The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room gathers generous portions of all thirteen novels and novellas, as well as first-person essays, generous helpings of poetry, journalism, and a new …
Do the Blind Dream?
New Novellas and Stories
E-bok, 2011
171 kr
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Do the Blind Dream? shows Gifford at the height of his powers, navigating with ease the new, more fragmented imaginative landscape of morning-after America. Gifford seems to have anticipated themes that suddenly are recognizable everywhere: the fragility of identity; the power of coincidence; the …
Wyoming
E-bok, 2011
104 kr
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A woman and her young son travel by car through the southern and midwestern United States in this heartbreakingly spare novel-in-dialogue. As the mother drives, she and the boy, Roy, trade impressions of the landscape and of life, in the process approaching an understanding of each other and their …
Sad Stories of the Death of Kings
E-bok, 2011
218 kr
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Roy is a lover of adventure movies, a budding writer, and a young man slowly coming of age without the benefit of a father. Surrounding him—whether to support him or to drag him under—is the adult world of postwar Chicago, a city haunted by violence, poverty, and the redeeming power of imagination. …
Imagining Paradise
New and Selected Poems
E-bok, 2012
422 kr
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A world of poems as populous and diverse as it is ephemeral and evanescent, born of the world and of books and art in equal measure, yielding granite truths and feather truths of people''s roller-coaster lives. The poet looks back, facing life and death and everything in between with equanimity, …
