Memories from a sinking ship

Name: Memories from a sinking ship
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9781583228753

by Unknown Author

270 pages2009Seven Stories PressISBN 9781583228753

Young Adult

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About this book

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.

Publication Details

Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2009
Pages: 270
ISBN: 9781583228753

About Unknown Author

Barry Gifford (born October 18, 1946, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American author, poet, and screenwriter known for his distinctive mix of American landscapes and prose influenced by film noir and Beat Generation writers. Gifford writes nonfiction, poetry, and is best known for his series of novels about Sailor and Lula, two star-crossed protagonists on a perpetual road trip.