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9781609805777 | Seven Stories Pr, January 13, 2015, cover price $23.95

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9781609807146 | Reprint edition (Seven Stories Pr, January 10, 2017), cover price $13.95

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Product Description: Barry Gifford's newest poetry collection captures the disarray of a life lived with passion and in many places. Gifford ponders serendipitous acquaintances, mourns the deaths of friends and squandered relationships, and writes love-filled notes to his daughter and granddaughter...read more

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9781940430775, titled "New York, 1960" | Consortium Book Sales & Dist, June 14, 2016, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Barry Gifford's newest poetry collection captures the disarray of a life lived with passion and in many places.

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9781590179161 | New York Review of Books, January 19, 2016, cover price $12.95

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9781609806491 | Seven Stories Pr, November 3, 2015, cover price $18.00

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Product Description: Barry Gifford has been writing gritty, American tales for the past forty years. His novels, stories, poetry, and films have helped shape the American neo-noir genre. The New York Times Book Review says that he "can sum up in a few words the cruelty, horror, and crushing banality that shape an entire life...read more

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9781609804978 | Seven Stories Pr, October 1, 2013, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Barry Gifford has been writing gritty, American tales for the past forty years.

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Product Description: Landscape with Traveler: The Pillow Book of Francis Reeves is Barry Gifford’s first full-length novel. In print for the first time in fifteen years, Landscape with Traveler is written as the protagonist's diary—inspired by the first century Japanese writer Sei Shōnagon’s pillow book—and structured as three acclaimed short novels bound into one volume...read more

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9781609804992 | New edition (Seven Stories Pr, October 1, 2013), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Landscape with Traveler: The Pillow Book of Francis Reeves is Barry Gifford’s first full-length novel.
9780679737490 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, May 1, 1993), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Francis Reeves discusses his unusual friendship with Jim and his own idiosyncratic view of life and the universe

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Product Description: A world of poems as populous and diverse as it is ephemeral and evanescent, born of the world and of books and art in equal measure, yielding granite truths and feather truths of people's roller-coaster lives. The poet looks back, facing life and death and everything in between with equanimity, holding a steady hand to the quivering breast wherever there is breath...read more

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9781609803742 | Seven Stories Pr, April 24, 2012, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: A world of poems as populous and diverse as it is ephemeral and evanescent, born of the world and of books and art in equal measure, yielding granite truths and feather truths of people's roller-coaster lives.

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9788484726456 | Celesa, September 1, 2011, cover price $44.95

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Product Description: Roy is a lover of adventure movies, a budding writer, and a young man slowly coming of age without the benefit of a father. Surrounding him—whether to support him or to drag him under—is the adult world of postwar Chicago, a city haunted by violence, poverty, and the redeeming power of imagination...read more
By Rob Christopher (foreword by) and Barry Gifford

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9781583229484 | Seven Stories Pr, November 23, 2010, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Roy is a lover of adventure movies, a budding writer, and a young man slowly coming of age without the benefit of a father.

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Product Description: On the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Barry Gifford's international bestseller, Wild at Heart, 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 Romeo and Juliet of the South": Wild at Heart, Perdita Durango (also made into a feature film), Sailor’s Holiday, Sultans of Africa, Consuelo’s Kiss, Bad Day for the Leopard Man, and The Imagination of the Heart...read more

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9781583229101 | Seven Stories Pr, May 1, 2010, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: On the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Barry Gifford's international bestseller, Wild at Heart, 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 Romeo and Juliet of the South": Wild at Heart, Perdita Durango (also made into a feature film), Sailor’s Holiday, Sultans of Africa, Consuelo’s Kiss, Bad Day for the Leopard Man, and The Imagination of the Heart.

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Product Description: The Imagination of the Heart is the final chapter in the saga of Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune, the "Romeo and Juliet of the Deep South." Their story began in Barry Gifford's novel Wild at Heart, which in 1990 was made into a Palme d'Or–winning feature film by David Lynch...read more

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9781583228739 | Seven Stories Pr, May 1, 2009, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The Imagination of the Heart is the final chapter in the saga of Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune, the "Romeo and Juliet of the Deep South.

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Product Description: Revolution is simmering in the heat of battered Central American town Port Tropique, where protagonist Franz Hall is an "intellectual Meursault in a paranoid Hemingway landscape, a self-conscious Conradian adventurer, a Lord Jim in the earliest stages of selfwilled failure" (New York Times)...read more

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9781583228562 | Seven Stories Pr, December 1, 2008, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Revolution is simmering in the heat of battered Central American town Port Tropique, where protagonist Franz Hall is an "intellectual Meursault in a paranoid Hemingway landscape, a self-conscious Conradian adventurer, a Lord Jim in the earliest stages of selfwilled failure" (New York Times).

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Product Description: Rare book: Price in USD

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9788420654119 | Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2007, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Rare book: Price in USD

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Product Description: Reminiscent of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Ernest Hemingway's Nick Adams stories, Memories from a Sinking Ship travels the landscape of a turbulent world seen through a boy’s steady gaze. Like Twain’s Mississippi River and Hemingway’s Big Two-Hearted, Gifford’s Chicago, New Orleans, and the highways and byways between offer us mesmerizing lives lost in the kaleidoscope of postwar America, in particular those of Roy’s adrift and disappointed mother and his hoodlum father...read more

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9781583227626 | Seven Stories Pr, May 1, 2007, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Reminiscent of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Ernest Hemingway's Nick Adams stories, Memories from a Sinking Ship travels the landscape of a turbulent world seen through a boy’s steady gaze.

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9781583228753 | Seven Stories Pr, May 1, 2009, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Reminiscent of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Ernest Hemingway's Nick Adams stories, Memories from a Sinking Ship travels the landscape of a turbulent world seen through a boy’s steady gaze.

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A collection of anecdotal essays is a series of meditations on life and art by the best-selling author of The Stars Above Veracruz and Wild at Heart that considers the books and people who have influenced his film work.

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9781568583341 | Thunder''s Mouth Pr, May 10, 2007, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A collection of anecdotal essays is a series of meditations on life and art by the best-selling author of The Stars Above Veracruz and Wild at Heart that considers the books and people who have influenced his film work.

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Product Description: 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...read more

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9781560259824 | Thunder''s Mouth Pr, December 7, 2006, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A high-wire artist named Ropedancer is our guide to Gifford’s world in The Stars Above Veracruz.

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Product Description: El libro de Jack/ The Book of Jack (Spanish Edition) [Aug 30, 2006] Gifford, Barry; Lee, Lawrence and Madariaga, Juan Maria ... 8484531619

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9788484531616 | Editorial Planeta Mexicana Sa De cv, August 30, 2006, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: El libro de Jack/ The Book of Jack (Spanish Edition) [Aug 30, 2006] Gifford, Barry; Lee, Lawrence and Madariaga, Juan Maria .

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A collection of lyrical, connected tales is set in such places as Paris, New Zealand, and Mexico City and includes confessional stories about commissions of small and large crimes, in a volume that is introduced and concluded by a high-wire artist whose act is a metaphor of his step-by-step life process.

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9781560258070 | Thunder''s Mouth Pr, January 2, 2006, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A collection of lyrical, connected tales is set in such places as Paris, New Zealand, and Mexico City and includes confessional stories about commissions of small and large crimes, in a volume that is introduced and concluded by a high-wire artist whose act is a metaphor of his step-by-step life process.

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Product Description: 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...read more

Hardcover:

9780060151416 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1984, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: This life of the late popular writer, following his career from his first success to his death, details Saroyan's rise and fall and notes the place in his life of ambition, anti-Semitism and compulsive gambling

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9781560257615 | Da Capo Pr, December 20, 2005, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: 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.
9780520213999 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, March 1, 1998), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: 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.
9780913729960 | Reprint edition (Paragon House, September 1, 1987), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: This life of the late popular writer, following his career from his first success to his death, details Saroyan's rise and fall and notes the place in his life of ambition, anti-Semitism and compulsive gambling

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Product Description: Do the Blind Dream? shows Gifford at the height of his powers, navigating with ease the new, more fragmented imaginative landscape of morning-after America. Gifford seems to have anticipated themes that suddenly are recognizable everywhere: the fragility of identity; the power of coincidence; the illusion of a secure tomorrow...read more

Hardcover:

9781583226353 | Seven Stories Pr, April 1, 2004, cover price $21.95

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9781583226704, titled "Do The Blind Dream?: New Novellas And Stories" | Seven Stories Pr, September 15, 2005, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Do the Blind Dream?

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Product Description: The Sinaloa Story tells of DelRay Mudo and Ava Varazo, two down-and-outs looking for a reasonable life and maybe even a little redemption in a corrupt and violent world. Ava is a Mexican prostitute, beautiful and no victim of circumstance...read more

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9780151002498 | Houghton Mifflin, May 1, 1998, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Tells the story of Ava, a Mexican prostitute with ambition, who convinces a client to help her murder a rich rancher, disappears with the loot, and then turns up as a major player in a revolutionary band's camp

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9781583226766 | Seven Stories Pr, August 30, 2005, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: The Sinaloa Story tells of DelRay Mudo and Ava Varazo, two down-and-outs looking for a reasonable life and maybe even a little redemption in a corrupt and violent world.
9780862418052 | Rebel Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Ava Varazo works in a brothel in the border town of La Paz, Arizona.

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Product Description: Barry Gifford’s spare eloquence considers such diverse topics as his friend Allen Ginsberg's death, the art of Vermeer, a cowboy wino, and September 11th in this collection of new poems. Delving into themes of love and death, Gifford offers heartbreaking verse such as "You sleep with my soul in your mouth/When we kiss I can taste it" and "If you can choose, it's not love...read more

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9780971407640 | Light of New Orleans Pub, Llc, November 28, 2004, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Barry Gifford’s spare eloquence considers such diverse topics as his friend Allen Ginsberg's death, the art of Vermeer, a cowboy wino, and September 11th in this collection of new poems.

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Product Description: A woman and her young son travel by car through the southern and midwestern United States in this heartbreakingly spare novel-in-dialogue. As the mother drives, she and the boy, Roy, trade impressions of the landscape and of life, in the process approaching an understanding of each other and their shared inner landscape...read more

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9781559705233 | Arcade Pub, July 1, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A story told entirely in dialogue follows the cross-country odyssey of a woman and her young son in the 1950s, conversing about their lives, dreams, disappointments, and feelings as they make their way by car through the southern and midwestern United States

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9781583226360 | Seven Stories Pr, May 30, 2004, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A woman and her young son travel by car through the southern and midwestern United States in this heartbreakingly spare novel-in-dialogue.
9788495908049 | Emece, May 1, 2002, cover price $20.95

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Product Description: Part critique, part witty polemic, this revisiting of one of the 1960s' most tortured and misunderstood productions finds a flawed masterpiece that survived multiple writers (including Stanley Kubrick), an egomaniacal star with no previous directing experience, and a virulent critical reaction to become, in retrospect, a crucial rethinking of the Western genre...read more

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9781556434853 | North Atlantic Books, December 1, 2003, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Part critique, part witty polemic, this revisiting of one of the 1960s' most tortured and misunderstood productions finds a flawed masterpiece that survived multiple writers (including Stanley Kubrick), an egomaniacal star with no previous directing experience, and a virulent critical reaction to become, in retrospect, a crucial rethinking of the Western genre.

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Product Description: American Falls is the first major collection of short stories from Barry Gifford, master of the dark side of the American reality. These stories range widely in style and period, from the 1950s to the present, from absurdist exercises to romantic tales, from stories about childhood innocence to novellas of murder and revenge...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781583224700 | 1 edition (Seven Stories Pr, April 1, 2002), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: American Falls is the first major collection of short stories from Barry Gifford, master of the dark side of the American reality.

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9781583225738 | Seven Stories Pr, June 1, 2003, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: American Falls is the first major collection of short stories from Barry Gifford, master of the dark side of the American reality.

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