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Memories from a Sinking Ship

A Novel

A Novel

A Novel

By Barry Gifford

By Barry Gifford

By Barry Gifford

By Barry Gifford

By Barry Gifford

By Barry Gifford

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Paperback $13.95

Jun 02, 2009 | ISBN 9781583228753

Hardcover $21.95

May 01, 2007 | ISBN 9781583227626

Ebook $11.99

Jan 04, 2011 | ISBN 9781583229422

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    About Memories from a Sinking Ship

    Winner of the 2007 Christopher Isherwood Foundation Award for Fiction

    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.

    About Memories from a Sinking Ship

    Winner of the 2007 Christopher Isherwood Foundation Award for Fiction

    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.

    About Memories from a Sinking Ship

    Winner of the 2007 Christopher Isherwood Foundation Award for Fiction

    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.

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    How Chet Baker Died
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    See all books by Barry Gifford

    Also by Barry Gifford

    Hotel Room Trilogy
    Ghost Years
    Writers
    How Chet Baker Died
    The Boy Who Ran Away to Sea
    See all books by Barry Gifford

    About Barry Gifford

    The author of more than forty works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, which have been translated into over twenty-five languages, BARRY GIFFORD writes distinctly American stories for readers around the globe. From screenplays and librettos to his acclaimed Sailor and… More about Barry Gifford

    About Barry Gifford

    The author of more than forty works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, which have been translated into over twenty-five languages, BARRY GIFFORD writes distinctly American stories for readers around the globe. From screenplays and librettos to his acclaimed Sailor and… More about Barry Gifford

    About Barry Gifford

    The author of more than forty works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, which have been translated into over twenty-five languages, BARRY GIFFORD writes distinctly American stories for readers around the globe. From screenplays and librettos to his acclaimed Sailor and… More about Barry Gifford

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Short Stories

    Paperback | $13.95
    Published by Seven Stories Press
    Jun 02, 2009 | 272 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8 | ISBN 9781583228753

    Category: Literary Fiction | Short Stories

    Hardcover | $21.95
    Published by Seven Stories Press
    May 01, 2007 | 272 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8 | ISBN 9781583227626

    Category: Literary Fiction | Short Stories

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Seven Stories Press
    Jan 04, 2011 | 272 Pages | ISBN 9781583229422

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    Praise

    “This novel is so exquisitely structured and Gifford’s story so engaging that it surrounds the reader and the characters, tying us to them with rapid transitions and rich embroidery. More, there is a persistent rhythm to it all, a constant throbbing like a train in motion or the beating of a heart, that permeates this work and brings the individual episodes into harmony that makes this collection of scenes into a novel.” –Review of Contemporary Fiction

    “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

    Awards

    L.A. Times Book Prize (The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose) WINNER 2007

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