Memories from a Sinking Ship by Barry Gifford

Memories from a Sinking Ship by Barry Gifford

In an episodic novel, Barry Gifford lays bare his young heart, exploring the hopes and disappointments of his childhood and adolescence. He recounts his travels with his mother, spent considering the intersection of the landscape and their lives, and an ailing gangster father, who influences his son's life through his absence. Memories From a Sinking Ship conjures an era - the late 1940s through to the early 1960s - and places - Chicago, the Florida Keys, New Orleans - to which one can never return.

The author of more than forty works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, which have been translated into over twenty-five languages, BARRY GIFFORD writes distinctly American stories for readers around the globe. From screenplays and librettos to his acclaimed Sailor and Lula novels, Gifford's writing is as distinctive as it is difficult to classify. Born in the Seneca Hotel on Chicago's Near North Side, he relocated in his adolescence to New Orleans. The move proved significant: throughout his career, Gifford's fiction--part-noir, part-picaresque, always entertaining--is born of the clash between what he has referred to as his Northern Side and Southern Side. Gifford has been recipient of awards from PEN, the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Library Association, the Writers Guild of America and the Christopher Isherwood Foundation. His novel Wild at Heart was adapted into the 1990 Palme d'Or-winning film of the same name. Gifford lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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ISBN 13	9781583228753
ISBN 10	1583228756
Title	Memories from a Sinking Ship
Author	Barry Gifford
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Year published	2009-06-02
Number of pages	270
Prizes	Winner of L.A. Times Book Prize (The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose) 2007
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