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Barry Gifford (born October 18, 1946) is an American author, poet, and screenwriter known for his distinctive mix of American landscapes and prose influenced by film noir and Beat Generation writers. Gifford writes nonfiction, poetry, and is best known for his series of novels about Sailor and Lula, two star-crossed protagonists on a perpetual ...
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Mar 16, 2018 · He lives in San Diego. Now 71, Barry Gifford has spent a lifetime writing stories about outsiders, particularly the hard-living petty thieves Sailor and Lula, the basis for the David Lynch film ...
Barry Gifford is an American author, poet, and screenwriter known for his distinctive mix of American landscapes and prose influenced by film noir and Beat Generation writers.
Barry Gifford continues to be one of America’s most original writers.”. “Barry Gifford invented his own American vernacular — William Faulkner by way of B-movie film noir, porn paperbacks, and Sun Records rockabilly — to forge the stealth-epic of Sailor &; Lula. His accomplishment looks more and more like one of the permanent glories ...
Barry Gifford. Barry Gifford was born on October 18, 1946, in Chicago, Illinois. His family moved often and lived mostly in hotels, and he cites the characters he encountered in hotel lobbies as an early inspiration to write. He played baseball in high school and enrolled at the University of Missouri on an athletic scholarship, but soon left ...
Start the evening at 6 pm with cocktails at Canessa Gallery, and settle in for a night with the likes of Gifford’s Kerouac, Kafka, O’Connor, Burroughs, Melville, and Gide. Canessa Gallery is located at 708 Montgomery Street, San Francisco. The landmark building is a diminutive old-brick gem and one of downtown San Francisco’s last links ...
Sailor and Lula: The Complete Novels On the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Barry Gifford’s international bestseller, Wild at Heart, and as well as the anniversary of the Palme d’Or-winning film adaptation by director David Lynch, Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels presents all of the novels and novellas that comprise the saga of Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune, “the ...
