Barry Gifford, Author Crane Hill Publishers $9.95 (88p) ISBN 978-1-57587-136-3
Popular as a cult novelist (Night People; The Sinaloa Story) and renowned for his association with filmmaker David Lynch, who directed the 1990 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or Prize-winner made from his novel Wild at Heart, Gifford has long mined...
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Barry Gifford. Seven Stories, $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-60980-577-7
First introduced in Gifford's Wild at Heart, Sailor Ripley and his wife, Lula, have starred in seven novels, and though both characters are now dead, their story lives on in the author's latest, a quick yet effective tale centered around their son,...
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Barry Gifford, Author Mariner Books $11 (192p) ISBN 978-0-15-600525-8
""Wackiness abounds"" in yet another road novel from the Wild at Heart inventor of Sailor and Lula. (May)
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Barry Gifford, Author Hyperion Books $19.45 (156p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6013-5
If an author's ability to lay an indelible stamp on a particular time and place is any measure of merit, then Gifford deserves applause. The latest work by the author of Wild at Heart returns to the locale he's making increasingly his own--a sultry,
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Barry Gifford, Author Grove/Atlantic $18.95 (190p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1538-6
Gifford (Wild at Heart) never shies away from confrontational fiction even when it strains credulity. Yet these four well-wrought, linked novellas, all dealing with struggle and violence--particularly violence toward women--and all set in dark...
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Barry Gifford, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $17.95 (189p) ISBN 978-0-87113-195-9
These transcribed tapes of talks with various racetrack types are divided into three areas. There is the backside, which involves trainers, grooms, a horse-shoer, exercise riders, jockeys and their agents; the frontside, where the contributors are a
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Barry Gifford, Author Grove/Atlantic $15.95 (159p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1181-4
In the visual equivalent of sound bites, novelist and poet Gifford ( Ghosts No Horse Can Carry ; Port Tropique ) cuts to the heart with sharply focused shots of young lovers on the lam. ``You mark me the deepest,'' says 20-year-old Lula Pace to...
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Barry Gifford, Author Arcade Publishing $19.95 (144p) ISBN 978-1-55970-523-3
Prolific novelist (Wild at Heart) and screenwriter (Lost Highway) Gifford delivers a sedate story written almost entirely in meandering dialogue between a mother and her precocious nine- year-old son, Roy. The book takes place in the mid-1950s as...
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Barry Gifford, Author . Thunder's Mouth $22.95 (262p) ISBN 978-1-56025-807-0
Gifford saw his novel Wild at Heart
become the David Lynch film, and he co-wrote the screenplay for Lost Highway
; this series of snappy vignettes has a cinematic quality, more like a treatment for an episodic film (à la Jim Jarmusch's...
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Barry Gifford, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $23 (272p) ISBN 978-0-15-100250-4
Rudy Winston, the father of novelist and poet Gifford (Wild at Heart), was a Chicago liquor-store owner with a criminal record. He's remembered by his son in this collection of autobiographical fragments--or, to be more accurate, his absence is...
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Barry Gifford, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $22 (240p) ISBN 978-0-15-100249-8
Once again, Gifford (Baby Cat-Face, 1995, etc.) depicts protagonists trying to make a brighter life for themselves while betraying lovers and staying one step ahead of homicidal maniacs. When former motorcycle mechanic DelRay Mudo joins up with Ava...
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Barry Gifford, Author Vintage Books USA $12 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-73490-1
Four violence-ridden novellas well served by on-pitch dialogue trace the intersecting paths of characters whom readers met in Wild at Heart . Gifford's A Good Man to Know is due in April from Clark City Press. (May)
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Barry Gifford, Author Clark City Press $21.95 (164p) ISBN 978-0-944439-36-4
James Winston's father, Rudy, ``a good man to know'' on the tough South Side of Chicago in the 1940s and '50s, is a small-time gangster who runs an all-night liquor store and befriends politicians and top cops. Unfolding in short vignettes...
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Barry Gifford, Author Clark City Press $11.95 (82p) ISBN 978-0-944439-31-9
In the title story of this collection, a man recalls an affair with an unconventional woman (Andre Breton's Nadja) whose history remains veiled to her lover; she instructs him to ``invent'' it. In ``The Tunisian Notebook,'' Gifford does just that...
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Barry Gifford, Seven Stories, $16.95 paper (201p) ISBN 978-1-58322-922-4
Gifford’s sentimental new novel tracks scrappy, precocious Roy as he finds his way in hardscrabble 1950s Chicago’s Polish ward. Roy’s life is populated by a crew of wayward boys—the Viper, Magic Frank, and Crazy Lester—who all must confront violence,
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Barry Gifford, Author . Seven Stories $14.95 (176p) ISBN 978-1-58322-873-9
Gifford's final installment in the Sailor and Lula saga (which began with Wild at Heart
, made into a film by David Lynch) finds high hilarity in a road trip back to New Orleans by the aged Southern best-bosom buddies Lula Pace Fortune and...
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Barry Gifford, Author, Susan Kamil, Editor Random House (NY) $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-40149-0
With considerable, if uneven, success, the four novellas in this volume trace the intersecting paths of characters met in Gifford's Wild at Heart. In the best and longest, ``59 and Raining: The Story of Perdita Durango,'' Gifford adapts real-life...
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Barry Gifford, Author, David Bromige, Designed by Creative Arts Book Company $12.95 (3p) ISBN 978-0-88739-064-7
The first third of this collection comprises the California-based novelist, biographer and poet's second book of poems, Coyote Tantras , and sets the volume's overall tone--the poet as a meditative, lonely observer, haunted by memory's ``ghosts''...
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Barry Gifford. Seven Stories, $24.95 (720p) ISBN 978-1-644-21022-2
Gifford (the Sailor and Luna series) collects his stories and novellas about a boy named Roy and his seedy, charming world for a staggering omnibus that includes 18 new stories and sweeps back to the 1973 collection A Boy’s Novel. Though he...
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