Summary
“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
New stories and collected short novels about recurring character Roy, with episodes from his life ages 5 to 17. The first section (The Vast Difference) features Gifford’s latest stories appearing in book form for the first time. Other sections - Memories from a Sinking Ship, Wyoming Sad Stories of the Death of Kings.
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 |
| Dimensions: | 35mm x 210mm x 175mm |
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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
About The Author
Barry Gifford
BARRY GIFFORD was born in Chicago in 1946. The author of more than forty published works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, which have been translated into twenty-eight languages, Gifford began as a poet and musician.
His most recent prose works are Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels, Sad Stories of the Death of Kings, and Memories from a Sinking Ship: A Novel. His most recent poetry collection is Imagining Paradise: New and Selected Poems (2012).
Gifford lives in the San Francisco area.
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