American Falls
The New and Selected Stories
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2011
Summary
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 novellas of murder and revenge.In the title story, a Japanese-American motel operator chooses not give up a total stranger, a black man wanted for murder, when the police come searching for him. In “Ro…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781583224700 |
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| ISBN-10: | 158322470X |
| Author: | Barry Gifford |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 437g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 151mm |
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Critics Review
“[Gifford] makes Camus look like Pollyanna… . If you bemoan the lack of something ‘different’ in fiction, your search is over.” –Andrew Vachss, Chicago Tribune
“Barry Gifford is a great writer, may Heaven and all help him, consequently.” –William Saroyan
“Giddord’s people are pure American; pure in their madness, in their evil; and, to read about, pure pleasure.” –Alan Cheuse, NPR
About The Author
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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