This book is about the "ghost years, that time in your life you don't know won't never come again," as Mrs. Cunningham tells Roy and her son, Tommy. Barry Gifford…

Features the three novellas Sailor’s Holiday , Sultans of Africa and Consuelo’s Kiss . In the first story, six months after sailor Ripley and Lula meet following his ten-year prison…

Presents a collection of anecdotal reflections that relate many of the experiences that shaped Barry Gifford as a writer. Representative of Gifford’s body of work, this volume is divided into…

A sinuous narrative of dislocation and remorse by renowned novelist and screenwriter 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…

Sixty-four linked tales of innocence, memory, and growing up, by American master Barry Gifford.

Brimming with literary delights from one of America’s most foremost literary figures, this anthology gathers excerpts from Gifford’s six Sailor and Lula novels, selected verse, an interview, and excerpts from…