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Barry Gifford

Born

in Chicago, Illinois, The United States

October 18, 1946

Website

http://barrygifford.com/

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers, Nonfiction

Influences

Jack London, B. Traven, Jack Kerouac, Pound, Emily Dickinson, Jean Rhy ...more

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Barry Gifford is an American author, poet, and screenwriter known for his distinctive mix of American landscapes and film noir- and Beat Generation-influenced literary madness.

He is described by Patrick Beach as being "like if John Updike had an evil twin that grew up on the wrong side of the tracks and wrote funny..."He is best known for his series of novels about Sailor and Lula, two sex-driven, star-crossed protagonists on the road. The first of the series, Wild at Heart, was adapted by director David Lynch for the 1990 film of the same title. Gifford went on to write the screenplay for Lost Highway with Lynch. Much of Gifford's work is nonfiction.
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Average rating: 3.85 · 9,452 ratings · 1,061 reviews · 144 distinct works • Similar authors

	Wild at Heart 3.75 avg rating — 1,715 ratings — published 1990 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac by Barry Gifford, Lawrence Lee 4.09 avg rating — 849 ratings — published 1978 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Perdita Durango 3.64 avg rating — 548 ratings — published 1992 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Night People 3.55 avg rating — 489 ratings — published 1992 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels 4.23 avg rating — 288 ratings — published 1990 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wild Life Of Sailor And Lula 4.03 avg rating — 287 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sailor's Holiday 3.72 avg rating — 262 ratings — published 1991 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Port Tropique 3.69 avg rating — 244 ratings — published 1980 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Baby Cat-Face: A Novel 3.83 avg rating — 169 ratings — published 1995 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wyoming 3.56 avg rating — 177 ratings — published 2000 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Sailor & Lula (7 books)
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“The world is really wild at heart and weird on top.”
― Barry Gifford, Wild at Heart

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“In the picture, Ava Gardner's tousled black hair obscured her right eye, and her full, closed lips were pulled slightly to the right, resulting in something less than a smile. They looked as if they'd been smeared shut with red paint, though the photo was in black and white. It wasn't so much a fuck-me face as a I've-been-there-and-back look, the kind of expression you see only on the most expensive whores.”
― Barry Gifford, Perdita Durango

tags: ava-gardner, expensive-whores

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“This is something an ordinary man can never know. You will enter the House of Dreams, Juanito, where you will live forever. Your mother and father and sisters and brothers, your grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, all you will greet in their dreams. And only you, among them, will be safe.”
― Barry Gifford, Perdita Durango

tags: house-of-dreams, juanito, romeo-dolorosa, sacrifice, safe

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A Feast of Snakes by Harry Crews

9 votes, 39.1%

Pike by Benjamin Whitmer

6 votes, 26.1%

Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich

5 votes, 21.7%

Wild at Heart by Barry Gifford

3 votes, 13.0%

23 total votes

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