Memories from a Sinking Ship

A Novel

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Product Details

Format Hardcover
ISBN-10 1583227628
ISBN-13 978-1-58322-762-6
Publication Date May 2007
Nb of pages 256
Dimensions 5.5 x 8 in.

Format Paperback
ISBN-10 1-58322-875-6
ISBN-13 978-1-58322-875-3
Publication Date Jun 2009


Description

Winner of the Christopher Isherwood Foundation Award for Fiction, 2007

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.


Additional Materials

The first chapter of the audiobook version of Memories from a Sinking Ship, read by Barry Gifford and produced by Oscar Bucher. For more information on the audiobook, visit Barry's



Reviews

Press Reviews

Review of Contemporary Fiction
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
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The Boston Globe
Nearly every Gifford story opens a Pandora’s Box of uncontainable emotions.… There’s no one like Barry Gifford, which is the best reason to read him.
- Richard Dyer



Experts

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


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