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1	Saroyan: A Biography more books like this by Lawrence Lee, Barry Gifford Along with Ernest Hemingway, William Saroyan--winner of a Pulitzer Prize in drama for The Time of Your Life and an Academy Award for the screenplay of The Human Comedy, --was the most well-known American writer of the 1930s and 1940s. Peabody Award-winning journalist Lawrence Lee and award-winning novelist Barry Gifford heard Saroyan's story first ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Wild at Heart: The Story of Sailor and Lula more books like this by Barry Gifford Sailor and Lula on the road: the basis of the David Lynch movie. Also includes a sequel, in which Sailor and Lula track down their kidnapped son. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.70! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Sailor's Holiday more books like this by Gifford Gifford's Wild at Heart (and the award-winning film it inspired) introduced Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune, the most passion-driven, star-crossed lovers since Romeo and Juliet. Now they're back, in interlocking novellas that reaffirm the redemptive jujitsu of romance and the terminal weirdness of the world outside the bedroom. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $37.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Port Tropique more books like this by Barry Gifford In this sinuous novel by the author of Wild at Heart, a Conradian adventurer becomes involved with smugglers and revolutionaries in a battered Central American city ripe with intrigue and corruption. An allusive and utterly original work, "Port Tropique is an exciting book".--The New York Times Book Review. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.08! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac more books like this by Barry Gifford Here, in what has become a classic of its kind since its publication in 1978, is the fascinating story of Jack Kerouac, "King of the Beats" and American literary legend, recorded through the voices of his friends and lovers. Authors Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee retraced Kerouac's life at home and on the road and talked with the prophets, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Bordertown more books like this by Barry Gifford, David Perry This book is the culmination of a road trip along the Mexican-American border taken by the two authors. They spent a month between Brownsville, Texas on the Gulf of Mexico and Tijuana on the Pacific Ocean documenting their travels in word and picture. The text is an anecdotal weaving together of the events and news along the border. Most of the ... see all copies from $7.25! new only from $42.70! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Night People more books like this by Barry Gifford Set in the shadows of the deep South, these four linked stories take readers into the lives of the night people - the odd, the innocent, the evil and the unearthly. Theirs is a world of sexual confusion, religious fanaticism, racial discrimination, child abuse and poverty. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Phantom Father: A Memoir more books like this by Barry Gifford The author explores the many-sided legacy of his father, a man well-known in his Chicago community as the owner of an all-night liquor and drugstore next to a popular nightclub. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Hot Rod more books like this by Barry Gifford, David Perry (Photographer), Chronicle Books With the grace and style of a souped-up Seville -- and published to coincide with the annual race extravaganza at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah -- "Hot Rod" captures the American obsession with speed, thrills, and cars in this unparalleled collection of photographs. From the chop shops of East Bakersfield to the drag strips and deserts of ... see all copies from $6.24! new only from $95.40! \| first editions
10	Baby Cat-Face more books like this by Barry Gifford (Editor) From the author of Wild at Heart, a "wild, wacky, funny, well-written, and surreal" novel (Kansas City Star) about a woman struggling to make her way in "a New Orleans so feverishly peculiar that Anne Rice would feel at ease there" (Washington Post). see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.80! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	The Sinaloa Story more books like this by Barry Gifford Ava Varazo works in a brothel in the border town of La Paz, Arizona. When one of her customers, DelRay Mudo, falls in love with her, she seizes the chance to change her life. Yet misfortune befalls them when they murder a rich racketeer who has asked Ava to be the queen of his own house. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.08! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12	Wild at Heart more books like this by Barry Gifford Sailor and Lula on the road: the basis of the David Lynch movie. Also includes a sequel, in which Sailor and Lula track down their kidnapped son. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Arise and Walk more books like this by Barry Gifford A down and out preacher, two escaped convicts inspired by the movie "The Defiant Ones," a white supremacist politician, and a Mexican mystic are among the characters populating this novel. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Lost Highway more books like this by David Lynch, Barry Gifford Sitting on Death Row, awaiting execution for the murder of his wife, Fred Madison experiences a shattering headache. The next day, a dazed and confused Pete Dayton is found in Madison's cell. Dayton has no memory of how he came to be there. Madison has gone missing. What follows may be reality or it may be part of a highly organized hallucination ... see all copies from $3.33! new only from $72.88! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	The wild life of Sailor and Lula more books like this by Barry Gifford 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.75! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Wyoming more books like this by Barry Gifford In the heart of the 1950s, a young boy named Roy drives across the country with his mother, in quest of a Wyoming that is less a real place than a shared dream and an opportunity to change their lives. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.56! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Stars Above Veracruz more books like this by Barry Gifford A high-wire artist named Ropedancer is our guide to Gifford's world in The Stars Above Veracruz. His tale opens and closes this book of linked short fictions that take place in Honduras, France, Cuba, Paris, New York, New Zealand, Mexico, and other locales. Gifford's lyrical stories are often confessional, involving crimes large and small and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	American Falls: The Collected Short Stories more books like this by Barry Gifford Now in paperback, American Falls is the first major collections of short stories from Barry Gifford, the grinning master of violent American satire. Ranging widely in style and period, from the 1950s to the present, these stories are absurdist exercieses and romantic tales, stories about childhood innocence novellas of murder and revenge. In the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19	Landscape with Traveler more books like this by Barry Gifford From the acclaimed author of Wild at Heart and Night People comes an innovative and exquisitely nuanced work written in the form of a classical Japanese "pillow book"--a collection of short tales grouped around a central theme. The result is an almost Zen-like tour through--and beyond--the realm of the senses. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20	A Day at the Races: The Education of a Racetracker more books like this by Barry Gifford A documentary-style, behind-the-scenes look at thoroughbred racing and the extraordinary characters who make their living through hard work, horse sense, and luck. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.29! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Memories from a Sinking Ship more books like this by Barry Gifford Praise for Barry Gifford: "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 "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 ... see all copies from $2.76! new only from $13.83! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	My Last Martini more books like this by Barry Gifford This title is a piquant collection of short stories with a continental flavour. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23	New Mysteries of Paris: Stories more books like this by Barry Gifford see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.14! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Ghosts No Horse Can Carry: Collected Poems, 1967-1987 more books like this by Barry Gifford, David Bromige (Designer) see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.67! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Hotel Room Trilogy more books like this by Barry Gifford In this collection of three plays set in the same hotel room, award-winning novelist Barry Gifford brings his highly acclaimed writing to the theater for the first time. In "Tricks" Moe and Lou share Darlene, a hooker they pass back and forth as they exchange and appropriate each other's identities in alternating moments of confusion and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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