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Poet, novelist, and playwright Barry Gifford was born in Chicago, Illinois on October 18, 1946. He briefly attended both the University of Missouri and Cambridge University. He published a book of poems in 1973 and started writing novels in 1980. He collaborated with David Lynch on Lost Highway and toon meer the HBO series Hotel Room. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay area. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

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Werken van Barry Gifford

The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula (1991) 164 exemplaren
Night People (1992) 103 exemplaren
Perdita Durango (1991) 76 exemplaren
Port Tropique (1980) 75 exemplaren
Baby Cat-Face: A Novel (1995) 53 exemplaren
The Sinaloa Story (1758) 48 exemplaren
Wyoming (2000) — Auteur; Illustrator, sommige edities42 exemplaren
Perdita Durango (1995) — Original — 40 exemplaren
Saroyan: A Biography (1984) 33 exemplaren
Arise and Walk (1994) 33 exemplaren
Bordertown (1998) 32 exemplaren
Southern Nights ("Rebel Inc") (1999) 28 exemplaren
New Mysteries of Paris (1991) 23 exemplaren
Kerouac's Town (1973) 22 exemplaren
Sad Stories of the Death of Kings (2010) 22 exemplaren
Phantom Father: A Memoir (1905) 21 exemplaren
Day at the Races (1988) 20 exemplaren
Hot Rod (1997) 19 exemplaren
The Stars Above Veracruz (2006) 18 exemplaren
Hotel Room Trilogy (1995) 18 exemplaren
Writers (2015) 16 exemplaren
Perdita Durango [1997 Film] (1997) — Writer — 16 exemplaren
The Up-Down (2015) 13 exemplaren
My Last Martini (2000) 13 exemplaren
The Roy Stories (2013) 12 exemplaren
An Unfortunate Woman (1984) 12 exemplaren
Memories from a Sinking Ship (2007) 11 exemplaren
The Cuban club (2017) 7 exemplaren
New York, 1960 (2016) 6 exemplaren
Juego del otro, El (2010) — Auteur — 5 exemplaren
The strangest one of all (1997) 5 exemplaren
Brando Rides Alone (2004) 5 exemplaren
Imagining Paradise (2012) 4 exemplaren
Coyote Tantras (1973) 4 exemplaren
Roy's world : stories 1973-2020 (2020) 4 exemplaren
Une Education Americaine (2010) 4 exemplaren
Back in America (2004) 4 exemplaren
Una puerta al río 3 exemplaren
Corazón salvaje (1995) 2 exemplaren
How Chet Baker died : poems (2022) 2 exemplaren
Bad Day for the Leopard Man (2014) 2 exemplaren
La légende de Marble Lesson (1995) 2 exemplaren
LAS CUATRO REINAS 2 exemplaren
Replies to Wang Wei (2001) 2 exemplaren
My mother's people (1976) 2 exemplaren
Flaubert at Key West (1997) 2 exemplaren
Paysage avec voyageur (1994) 1 exemplaar
Black Lizard 1 exemplaar
Il mondo di Roy (2022) 1 exemplaar
Sailor et Lula_1ere_ed (2018) 1 exemplaar
LETTERS TO PROUST. (1976) 1 exemplaar
Sultans of Africa (2014) 1 exemplaar
Consuelo's Kiss (2014) 1 exemplaar
From Persimmons (1974) 1 exemplaar
Veszett a világ 1 exemplaar
Nadja in Paradise (1984) 1 exemplaar
Versions of Neveu 1 exemplaar

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Lost Highway [1997 film] (1997) — Screenwriter — 124 exemplaren
San Francisco Noir (2005) — Medewerker — 103 exemplaren
Wild at Heart [dvd] (1990) — novel — 90 exemplaren
Chicago Noir: The Classics (2015) — Medewerker — 50 exemplaren
Berkeley Noir (2020) — Medewerker — 35 exemplaren
Love Is Strange: Stories of Postmodern Romance (1993) — Medewerker — 32 exemplaren
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I actually liked the movie better for once.
 
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veewren | 4 andere besprekingen | Jul 12, 2023 |
The quality is regressing a bit faster than I would like, at this point, with this 6th tale of Sailor and Lulu.

There are occasional clever lines (which, all highlights and annotations will be displayed when I finish the whole collection), but a shocking amount of this story is recapping previous events, both in Gifford's own work, and in several ostensibly unrelated movies, and then offering interpretations of same.

But the shocking stuff isn't really shocking anymore, and while one can be temporarily amused by a characer calling attention to Gifford's own overreliance on car crashes and kidnappings, acknowledging one's crutches is not the same as subverting them.… (meer)
 
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danieljensen | May 25, 2023 |
Ramps up the grotesquerie of Wild at Heart by offloading a lot of unpleasantness to a bit character and her new (Latino) companion. It's sordid and completely ungrounded, which means whatever wisdom of the bottom-feeders that existed last time around doesn't, here.
 
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danieljensen | 1 andere bespreking | May 25, 2023 |
Road-trip mytho-poeticism rendered almost entirely in dialogue, but without all that much criminal activity (and nowhere near the same feeling of sinister stakes the Lynch film brings out). This is not surprising, considering Barry Gifford started out on the poetry side of things, but this does read like a first novel, even if it apparently isn’t. There are a lot of thoughts and low-key philosophy thrown in that walks the line between profundity and dirt-bag wisdom.

It works well as a supplement to the David Lynch film in that the things I enjoy in each are completely different, though it took me a while to mentally age down Sailor and Lulu from their Cage/Dern incarnations. Probably the thing I most enjoy is that the only main character Gifford doesn’t try to inhabit is the obvious (potential) authorial stand-in, Sailor. Gifford is much more interested in Lulu, her mother, and Johnny Farragut, and that gives things a nearly feminist cast, which, one year before Thelma and Louise makes this amongst the first road-trip narratives primarily concerned with the female experience of it, albeit one written by a man.
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92
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17
Leden
2,107
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½ 3.7
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ISBNs
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