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Sad Stories Of the Death Of Kings
[Paperback - 2010]
barry gifford
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Category: Children
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Publisher: Seven Stories Press | ISBN: 9781583229224 | Pages: 208
Shipping Weight: .197 | Dimensions: 5.51 x .57 x 8.22 inches

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Roy is a lover of adventure movies, a budding writer, and a young man slowly coming of age without the benefit of a father. Surrounding him—whether to support him or to drag him under—is the adult world of postwar Chicago, a city haunted by violence, poverty, and the redeeming power of imagination. Here are charlatans, operators, alien abductees, schoolyard nudists, and fast girls with only months to live. At the center of it all is a boy learning to navigate the compromises, disillusionments and regrets that come with the territory of living. Mixing memoir and invention, the forty-one short stories in Barry Gifford's first book for young adults bring a city—and a boy's growing consciousness—to vivid, unflinching life.

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Barry Gifford is an American author, poet, and screenwriter known for his distinctive mix of American landscapes and film noir- and Beat Generation-influenced literary madness.He is described by Patrick Beach as being "like if John Updike had an evil twin that grew up on the wrong side of the tracks and wrote funny..."He is best known for his series of novels about Sailor and Lula, two sex-driven, star-crossed protagonists on the road. The first of the series,Wild at Heart, was adapted by director David Lynch for the 1990 film of the same title. Gifford went on to write the screenplay forLost Highwaywith Lynch. Much of Gifford's work is nonfiction.

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