Search results for ‘Barry Gifford’

Filter & Refine

      Cover image for Night People
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Night People

      Barry Gifford

      The author of Wild at Heart and The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula writes of what Tennessee Williams called something wild in the country/that only the night people know…

      $36.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Sailor & Lula Expanded Edition: The Complete Novels
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Sailor & Lula Expanded Edition: The Complete Novels

      Barry Gifford

      The Romeo and Juliet of the South’ are back in this new omnibus edition.

      $54.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

      Hardback
      Add to list Added to list

      No Daylight in That Face

      Barry Gifford

      Our of print for years and newly retitled and expanded, this deluxe new edition of Gifford's celebrated handbook unlocks the secrets of noir movies and their relevance today

      For a…

      $49.99

      Order online and we’ll ship when availablePre-order now

      Cover image for Night People
      Hardback
      Add to list Added to list

      Night People

      Barry Gifford, Chris Condon

      FOR SOME PEOPLE, IT'S ALWAYS MIDNIGHT . . .

      From the mind of writer Barry Gifford (Wild at Heart, Lost Highway), adapted by That Texas Blood's Chris Condon and a…

      $59.99

      Order online and we’ll ship when availablePre-order now

      Cover image for Ghost Years
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Ghost Years

      Barry Gifford

      A follow up to the book Roy's World, which inspired the documentary directed by Rob Christopher narrated by Lili Taylor, Matt Dillon and Willem Dafoe, this novel is a tribute…

      $38.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Hotel Room Trilogy
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Hotel Room Trilogy

      Barry Gifford

      From the award-winning author and screenplay writer, a trio of one-act plays depicting the spooky, strange, and tragic passage of guests through the same New York City hotel room (number…

      $27.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      New Mysetries of Paris

      Barry Gifford,Barrie Gifford

      As The Los Angeles Times wrote, New Mysteries of Paris is not so much stories as character sketches, artfully drawn, as though told by people very close to their subjects…

      $26.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Writers
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Writers

      Barry Gifford

      In Writers, great American storyteller Barry Gifford paints portraits of famous writers caught in imaginary vulnerable moments in their lives. In prose that is funny, grotesque, and a touch brutal…

      $40.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Perdita Durango
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Perdita Durango

      Barry Gifford

      Bad girl Perdita Durango and her dealer boyfriend Romeo Dolorosa get their kicks on a journey from Louisiana to Los Angeles that involves santeria rituals and kidnapping.

      $36.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for American Falls: The New and Selected Stories
      Hardback
      Add to list Added to list

      American Falls: The New and Selected Stories

      Barry Gifford

      Long-time friend of and collaborator with David Lynch, Gifford is the master of tales that normalise the dark side of everyday reality, as in the story ‘Wild at Heart’, which…

      $56.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Wyoming
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Wyoming

      Barry Gifford

      A picturesque novel in dialogue by the author of Wild at Heart and Night People.

      $20.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for The Sinaloa Story: A Novel
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      The Sinaloa Story: A Novel

      Barry Gifford

      Mixing a fool for love, a smoking gun and a chance in hell.

      $31.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Imagining Paradise: New and Selected Poems
      Hardback
      Add to list Added to list

      Imagining Paradise: New and Selected Poems

      Barry Gifford

      The definitive collection of Barry Gifford’s verse: the writings of an underground poet who lasted.

      $72.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula

      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…

      $29.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Roy's World: Stories 1973 - 2020
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Roy’s World: Stories 1973 - 2020

      Barry Gifford

      A tie-in to the new documentary, Roy’s World, directed by Rob Christopher narrated by Lili Taylor, Matt Dillon and Willem Dafoe, these stories comprise one of Barry Gifford’s most enduring…

      $51.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for How Chet Baker Died
      Hardback
      Add to list Added to list

      How Chet Baker Died

      Barry Gifford

      Poems from the acclaimed author of Roy’s World, Wild at Heart, and many other works

      The first words in Barry Gifford’s new poetry collection say it all- Here I am…

      $54.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for The Boy Who Ran Away To Sea
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      The Boy Who Ran Away To Sea

      Barry Gifford

      A childhood in the 1950s and ‘60s among grifters, show girls, and mob enforcers who embraced the boy and made him who he is.

      These stories make for one of…

      $38.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Out of the Past: Adventures in Film Noir
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Out of the Past: Adventures in Film Noir

      Barry Gifford

      For a tour of noir cinema this handbook is the perfect companion and Barry Gifford is an ideal guide. His choice selection of films exposes the menacing, moody, and oftentimes…

      $99.99

      Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

      Cover image for The Cavalry Charges: Writings on Books, Film, and Music, Revised Edition
      Hardback
      Add to list Added to list

      The Cavalry Charges: Writings on Books, Film, and Music, Revised Edition

      Barry Gifford

      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…

      $319.99

      Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

      Cover image for American Falls: Collected Stories
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      American Falls: Collected Stories

      Barry Gifford

      Now in paperback, the acclaimed short story collection from David Lynch’s partner in crime, the grinning master of violent American satire Barry Gifford, author of Wild at Heart and Lost…

      $29.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Do the Blind Dream: New Novellas and Stories
      Hardback
      Add to list Added to list

      Do the Blind Dream: New Novellas and Stories

      Barry Gifford

      Depicting the tender inner lives of the characters, two new novellas and 11 stories are offered from the master of violent American satire.

      $49.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Do the Blind Dream?: New Novellas and Stories
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Do the Blind Dream?: New Novellas and Stories

      Barry Gifford

      Gifford’s newest fiction, tasting of Bunuel and Cocteau. -Pedro Almodovar

      $31.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Memories from a Sinking Ship
      Hardback
      Add to list Added to list

      Memories from a Sinking Ship

      Barry Gifford

      Barry Gifford’s episodic novel of youth, slices of life that cut to the bone.

      $49.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Port Tropique
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Port Tropique

      Barry Gifford

      A sinuous narrative of dislocation and remorse by renowned novelist and screenwriter Barry Gifford.

      $31.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for The Imagination of the Heart: Book Seven of the Story of Sailor and Lula
      Hardback
      Add to list Added to list

      The Imagination of the Heart: Book Seven of the Story of Sailor and Lula

      Barry Gifford

      Two eighty-year-old girls take a road trip to New Orleans with memories of their bittersweet lives.

      $52.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Memories from a Sinking Ship
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Memories from a Sinking Ship

      Barry Gifford

      Barry Gifford’s coming-of-age novel, twenty years in the writing.

      $31.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Sad Stories Of The Death Of Kings
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Sad Stories Of The Death Of Kings

      Barry Gifford

      A vivid and unflinching portrait of a fatherless adolescent boy coming of age within the violent humanity of 1960s Chicago.

      $38.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Sad Stories of the Death of King
      Hardback
      Add to list Added to list

      Sad Stories of the Death of King

      Barry Gifford

      A vivid and unflinching portrait of a fatherless adolescent boy coming of age within the violent humanity of 1960s Chicago.

      $38.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for The Roy Stories
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      The Roy Stories

      Barry Gifford

      New stories and collected short novels about recurring character Roy, with episodes from his life ages 5 to 17. The first section (‘The Vast Difference’) features Gifford’s latest stories appearing…

      $38.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Landscape With Traveler: The Pillow Book of Francis Reeves
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Landscape With Traveler: The Pillow Book of Francis Reeves

      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…

      $31.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for The Up-down
      Hardback
      Add to list Added to list

      The Up-down

      Barry Gifford

      A novel of violence, of love, and introspection, The Up-Down follows a man who leaves home and all that’s familiar, finds true love, loses it, and finds it again. Pace’s…

      $54.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Writers: 13 Vignettes
      Hardback
      Add to list Added to list

      Writers: 13 Vignettes

      Barry Gifford

      Great American storyteller Barry Gifford paints portraits of famous writers caught in imaginary vulnerable moments in their lives.

      $40.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for The Up-down: A Novel
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      The Up-down: A Novel

      Barry Gifford

      A novel of violence, of love and introspection, The Up-Down follows Pace, a man who leaves home and all that’s familiar, finds true love, loses it and finds it again.

      $31.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for The Cuban Club
      Hardback
      Add to list Added to list

      The Cuban Club

      Barry Gifford

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

      $54.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Southern Nights: Night People, Arise and Walk, Baby Cat Face
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Southern Nights: Night People, Arise and Walk, Baby Cat Face

      Barry Gifford

      A collection of three of Gifford’s wildest and weirdest Southern gothic novels.

      $45.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for The Cuban Club
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      The Cuban Club

      Barry Gifford

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

      $33.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Black Sun Rising / La Corazonada: A Novel / Una Novela
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Black Sun Rising / La Corazonada: A Novel / Una Novela

      Barry Gifford

      A novel; Una novela –Opposing cover pages.

      $42.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for The Cavalry Charges: Writings on Books, Film, and Music, Revised Edition
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      The Cavalry Charges: Writings on Books, Film, and Music, Revised Edition

      Barry Gifford

      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…

      $39.99

      Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

      Hardback
      Add to list Added to list

      Night People.

      Barry Gifford

      The author of Wild at Heart and The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula writes of what Tennessee Williams called something wild in the country/that only the night people know…

      $42.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room: A Barry Gifford Reader
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room: A Barry Gifford Reader

      Barry Gifford,Andrei Codrescu

      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…

      $45.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Black Wings Has My Angel
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Black Wings Has My Angel

      Elliott Chaze

      Chazes long-lost classic, a legend among noir buffs. The dream-like tale of a man after a jailbreak who meets up with the woman of his dreamsand his nightmares.

      $38.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Jack’s Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac

      Barry Gifford,Lawrence Lee

      The only oral, composite biography of Jack Kerouac. Being reissued, with a revised introduction, in the year of the film of his most famous novel, On the Road.

      $60.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Paris Noir
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Paris Noir

      Maxim Jakubowski

      A collection of stories about the dark side of Paris.

      $33.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for San Francisco Noir
      Hardback
      Add to list Added to list

      San Francisco Noir

      In this collection, virtuosos of the genre meet up with the best of San Francisco’s literary fiction community. Contributers include Barry Gifford, Robert Mailer Anderson, Michelle Tea, Peter Plate, Kate…

      $117.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Berkeley Noir
      Hardback
      Add to list Added to list

      Berkeley Noir

      Berkeley brings its own unique blend of Bay Area noir, complementing the grit and grime that preceded it in San Francisco Noir and Oakland Noir.

      $108.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order