Barry Gifford
The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula
pbk 01 Jul 98
The Sinaloa Story
pbk 04 Jun 98
About the Author
Bibliography
The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula
Featuring the novels
Wild at Heart
Perdita Durango
Sailor's Holiday
Sultans of Africa
Consuelo's Kiss
Bad Day for the Leopard Man
Collected together for the first time ever, The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula presents Barry Gifford's meisterwork as he had originally conceived it - six interlocking novels which chart the crazy adventures of Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune, the most likeable, sex-driven, star-crossed lovers that you are ever likely to meet.
"A dark and comic ride through a fantasy America that rings desperately true." The New York Times Book Review
"Gifford's Sailor and Lula have the perfect take on sex. it's like looking into the Garden of Eden before things went bad." David Lynch
"Gifford writes a sort of chicken-fried noir with utterly original rhythm, and dialogue and dialect that Tom Wolfe would kill to call his own. Like if John Updike had an evil twin that grew up the wrong side of the tracks and wrote funny..." Patrick Beach
The Sinaloa Story
When unemployed mechanic, DelRay Mudo, visits a drive-in whorehouse and falls in love with a small-town Mexican prostitute, Ava Varazo, she seizes the opportunity to quit her line of work and they both take off for Sinaloa, Texas, the lone-star state "where nothing good ever happens".
For the dizzyingly beautiful and extremely dangerous Ava has hatched a plot to kill Indio Desacato, a drug-running, pimping racketeer who is stone-crazy about her and wants her to be his queen bee. She enlists DelRay's help and for the moment it seems that all is going to plan. The question is whose plan?
The Sinaloa Story, expertly shifting from the tender to the terrifying and with its cast typically crazy, small-town Gifford characters, is a tale that will electrify the reader. Gifford's newest novel goes to the border and beyond.
"Barry Gifford is all the proof the world will ever need that a writer who listens with his heart is capable of telling anyone's story." Armistead Maupin
"Gifford cuts right through to the heart of what makes a good novel readable and entertaining ... the way Barry Gifford does it, it's high art." Elmore Leonard
"If you bemoan the lack of something different in your fiction the search is over." Andrew Vachss
"Like Sailor and Lula of Gifford's previous novels, DelRay and Ava can't avoid the violence that surrounds them [nor do they always want to], but, in Gifford's hands, their troubles are elevated to a gritty, visceral poetry of the marginalized." Publishers Weekly
About The Author
Barry Gifford was born in Chicago in 1946. He is the author of over twenty-five books - ranging over the genres of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays and screenplays - and his work has been translated into over seventeen languages. His novel, Wild at Heart (made into an award winning film by David Lynch) was the first in a succession of novels exploring the contemporary American landscape that have brought him increasing international acclaim. He co-wrote Lost Highway with David Lynch and is to direct the film version of Sultans of Africa and has success on the continent with the Spanish language film Perdita Durango.
Gifford's writing has also appeared in many magazines and newspapers and his books have received numerous literary awards. One of them, Night People, was presented the Premio Brancati, Italy's national book award, established by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Alberto Moravia.
He lives in the San Franciso Bay area
Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.
The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula
(Rebel inc Pbk,
1998)
Pbk Jul 98
The Sinaloa Story
(Rebel inc Pbk,
1998)
Pbk Jun 98
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