The Rooster Trapped In The Reptile Room

Author : Barry Gifford
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609800925

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The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room by Barry Gifford Pdf

"Everything I have to say about race and religion and politics is in the novels," declares Barry Gifford. The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room gathers generous portions of all thirteen novels and novellas, as well as first-person essays, generous helpings of poetry, journalism, and a new interview with the author. The broad contours of an episodic output emerge—a full-length view of the freaks and freakish incidents that populate Gifford’s unique human comedy. A world, as Lula, the author’s favorite of all his characters, reflects, "wild at heart and weird on top." The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room provides essential reading for anyone after the soul of American writing.

Author : Barry Gifford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1282731513

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Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room by Barry Gifford Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105115047685

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First Intensity by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rose Arny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1190 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-04
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015054030385

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Forthcoming Books by Rose Arny Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2966 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography
ISBN : 0837969751

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Who's who in America by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066043228

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : UCSD:31822037943214

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The Writers Directory by Anonim Pdf

Author : Europa Europa Publications
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-23
Category : Authors
ISBN : 1857434285

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International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2008 by Europa Europa Publications Pdf

An invaluable source of information on the personalities and organizations of the literary world.

Author : Barry Gifford
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609805784

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The Up-Down by Barry Gifford Pdf

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 voyage is outward, among strangers, and inward into the fifth direction that is the up-down, in a sweeping, voracious human tale that takes no prisoners, witnesses extreme brutalities and expresses a childlike amazement. Here the route goes from New Orleans, to Chicago to Wyoming to Bay St. Clement, North Carolina, but the geography he is charting is always first and foremost unchartable.

Author : Barry Gifford
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781644210239

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Roy's World by Barry Gifford Pdf

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 works, his homage to the gritty Chicago landscape of his youth Barry Gifford has been writing the story of America in acclaimed novel after acclaimed novel for the last half-century. At the same time, he's been writing short stories, his "Roy stories," that show America from a different vantage point, a certain mix of innocence and worldliness. Reminiscent of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Ernest Hemingway's Nick Adams stories, Gifford's Roy stories amount to the coming-of-age novel he never wrote, and are one of his most important literary achievements--time-pieces that preserve the lost worlds of 1950s Chicago and the American South, the landscape of postwar America seen through the lens of a boy's steady gaze. The twists and tragedies of the adult world seem to float by like curious flotsam, like the show girls from the burlesque house next door to Roy's father's pharmacy who stop by when they need a little help, or Roy's mom and the husbands she weds and then sheds after Roy's Jewish mobster father's early death. Life throws Roy more than the usual curves, but his intelligence and curiosity shape them into something unforeseen, while Roy's complete lack of self-pity allow the stories to seem to tell themselves.

Author : Barry Gifford
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609805005

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Landscape with Traveler by Barry Gifford Pdf

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. The book recounts the deep friendship between a middle-aged gay man and a young straight man through vignette-like entries, all the while tracing a history of the US from the 1930s through 1970s. Laying bare the themes that have marked his lifelong career: a winsome, beat-inspired frenzy of love, a generation-defining crossroads in American history—the novel tells an honest story of a male homosexual life.

Author : Barry Gifford
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609804985

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The Roy Stories by Barry Gifford Pdf

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.” Andrei Codrescu calls Gifford “a great comic realist,” while Pedro Almodóvar likens him to the surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel, and Jonathan Lethem describes his style as “William Faulkner by way of B-movie film noir, porn paperbacks, and Sun Records rockabilly.” In The Roy Stories Gifford brings his signature style to a collection of tales following the character of Roy, who has made appearances in a number of Gifford’s previous story collections. Roy lives a mystical kind of life, skinning crocodiles in Southern Florida at age nine in the 1940s and playing in the back alleys of Chicago in the 1950s. This deep-feeling boy observes every detail in his surroundings with a sense of dark humor and an openness that will clutch readers tightly by the heart and lead them on a historical journey.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2576 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025417838

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Books in Print Supplement by Anonim Pdf

Author : Barry Gifford
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802134548

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The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula by Barry Gifford Pdf

This volume comprises six interlocking novels which chart the wild lives of star-crossed lovers Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune. The bizarre and varied characters of the stories inhabit a surreal world where paradoxes abound.

Author : Lisa Steele
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0985562250

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Fresh Eggs Daily by Lisa Steele Pdf

More than ever, Americans care about the quality and safety of the food they eat. They're bringing back an American tradition: raising their own backyard chickens for eggs and companionship. And they care about the quality of life of their chickens. Fresh Eggs Daily is an authoritative, accessible guide to coops, nesting boxes, runs, breeding, feed, and natural health care with time-tested remedies. The author promotes the benefits of keeping chickens happy and well-occupied, and in optimal health, free of chemicals and antibiotics. She emphasizes the therapeutic value of herbs and natural supplements to maintaining a healthy environment for your chickens. Includes many "recipes" and 8 easy DIY projects for the coop and run. Full color photos throughout. The USDA's new study of urban chicken raising sees a 400% increase in backyard chickens over the next 5 years, driven by younger adults.