The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula ("Rebel Inc" S.) - Softcover

Gifford, Barry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0862418046 ISBN 13: 9780862418045

Publisher: Rebel inc., 1998

This volume comprises six interlocking novels which chart the wild lives of star-crossed lovers Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune. The bizarre and varied characters of the stories inhabit a surreal world where paradoxes abound.

Review:

"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)

About the Author:

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.

• Publisher: Rebel inc.
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0862418046
• ISBN 13: 9780862418045
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512