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Memories From A Sinking Ship

Barry Gifford

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English
Seven Stories
01 August 2011
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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Imprint:   Seven Stories
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 139mm,  Spine: 24mm
Weight:   443g
ISBN:   9781583227626
ISBN 10:   1583227628
Pages:   256
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for Memories From A Sinking Ship

“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


  • Winner of L.A. Times Book Prize (The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose) 2007

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