The Roy Stories
$32.90
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2013
Summary
New and newly collected stories, following a beloved recurring character, from a contemporary American master with proven Hollywood mojo.For forty years-a Biblical time span-The Roy Stories has been the one continuous unbroken line in the otherwise kaleidoscopic career of one of America’s greatest living writers. Collected here for the first time, the Roy stories of Barry Gifford chronicle his personal history of a time-roughly, the late 1940s through the early 1960s-and a place-the southern and mid-western United States (Chicago, Illinois, and Key West and Miami, Florida, in particular). Similar in structure and tone to Ernest Hemingway’s Nick Adams stories, Barry Gifford’s slices of life cut to the heart and the bone. “Nearly every Gifford story opens a Pandora’s box of uncontainable emotions,” wrote Richard Dyer in the Boston Globe. “There’s no one like Barry Gifford, which is the best reason to read him.”
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781609804978 |
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| ISBN-10: | 160980497X |
| Author: | Barry Gifford |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2013 |
| Weight: | 526g |
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Critics Review
“Gifford, a master of the short story and nasty vignette, can sum up in a few words the cruelty, horror, and crushing banality that shape an entire life.” - New York Times Book Review
“Complete with road trips, baseball lore and local yarns, The Roy Stories is as American as apple pie and the punks that nabbed it from your windowsill.” —Time Out New York
“Gifford, a master of the short story and nasty vignette, can sum up in a few words the cruelty, horror, and crushing banality that shape an entire life.” —The New York Times Book Review
“The way Barry Gifford lets people talk articulates everything about their unfamiliar inner lives, and ours.” —The Boston Globe
“Gifford is a master.” —Los Angeles Times
“Gifford cuts right through the heart of what makes a good novel readable and entertaining. … The way Barry Gifford does it, it’s high art.” —Elmore Leonard
“Barry Gifford invented his own American vernacular–William Faulkner by way of B-movie film noir, porn paperbacks, and Sun Records rockabilly” —Jonathan Lethem
“Gifford is an anomaly in both his influence and recognition. His prose is as straightforward as it is avant-garde, and can turn an ashtray into a flower petal right there on the page.” —Sarah Wambold, Arts and Entertainment
“Like Hemingway, Saroyan, Kerouac, and Salinger… Gifford has a style. He is a great comic realist who does with the turn of a phrase what a Zen master does with a brushstroke. Gifford is an original who has seized the still-live vein of that American realism which began with Mark Twain.” —Andrei Codrescu, National Public Radio
Barry Gifford
The author of more than forty works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, which have been translated into over twenty-five languages,BARRY GIFFORDwrites 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 novelWild at Heartwas 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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