The Boy Who Ran Away to Sea
A childhood in the 1950s and '60s among grifters, show girls, and mob enforcers who embraced the boy and made him who he is.These stories make for one of the most important and moving American bildungsromans of all time. -William Boyle, The Southwest Review Roy tells it the way he sees it, shuttled between Chicago to Key West and Tampa, Havana and Jackson MS, usually with his mother Kitty, often in the company of lip-sticked women and fast men. Roy is the muse of Gifford's hardboiled style, a precocious child, watching the grown-ups try hard to save themselves, only to screw up again and again. He takes it all in, every waft of perfume and ci…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-64421-153-3
- EAN: 9781644211533
- Produktnummer: 36692018
- Verlag: Seven Stories Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Abbildungen: LINE DRAWINGS THROUGHOUT
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Barry Gifford is the author of more than forty published works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, which have been translated into thirty languages. His most recent books include The Cuban Club, The Up-Down, Writers, Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels, Sad Stories of the Death of Kings, Imagining Paradise: New and Selected Poems, The Roy Stories, and Landscape with Traveler. He co-wrote with David Lynch the screenplays for the two movies they made together, Wild at Heart, based on the Gifford's 1990 novel, which is one of the eight novels in Sailor & Lula, and Lost Highway. Wild at Heart, directed by David Lynch, won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1990, the same year in which the novel was published. Gifford lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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