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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Canongate Books

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781841954349

RRP: £14.99

PAGES: 528

PUBLICATION DATE:
September 18, 2003

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The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula

Barry Gifford

Featuring the novels: “Wild at Heart”, “Perdita Durango”, “Sailor’s Holiday”, “Sultans of Africa”, “Consuelo’s Kiss” and “Bad Day for the Leopard Man”. “The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula” presents Gifford’s best prose work as he originally conceived it: six inter-locking novels which chart the riotous and stormy lives of Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune – the horribly likeable, sex-driven, star-crossed lovers immortalised in David Lynch’s movie “Wild at Heart”. Masterful with dialogue, and always full of vitality and humour, these novels show a writer at the height of his – considerable – talent. As Elmore Leonard said of him, “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”.

Reviews of The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula

* has all the narrative nuances that have made his style synonymous with David Lynch's: the eclectic sound track, the freak-show cast of ageing and raging odd-balls, and the fractured dialogue between personal dreams and kitsch, accidental cultural guardians – it's the novel's unfilmable inner stories that propel it so speedily into the reader's fascination City Life * Gifford is a brilliant writer – a hard-boiled stylist with a soft-centred heart…His books are like the world they portray: wild at heart and weird on top. The Herald * Gifford's grim scene-setting embraces people, places, hope, courage and despair. That's plenty to be going on with. Literary Review * Intense, precise, funny, often sad – Mr Gifford is a master of precision in a strange, stark beauty of language. Paris Voice

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Barry Gifford

Barry Gifford was born in Chicago in 1946. His novels have been translated into twenty-two languages. His book Night People was awarded the Premio Brancati in Italy, and he has been the recipient of awards from PEN, the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Library Association and the Writers Guild of America. David Lynch’s film Wild at Heart, which was based on Gifford’s novel, won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990. Gifford’s novel Perdita Durango was made into a feature film by Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia in 1997. Barry Gifford co-wrote with director David Lynch the film Lost Highway (1997); he also co-wrote with director Matt Dillon the film City of Ghosts (2003). Barry Gifford’s other books include The Phantom Father, named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; Wyoming, named a Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year, and which has been adapted for the stage and film; American Falls: The Collected Short Stories and The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room: A Barry Gifford Reader.