Barry Gifford





Barry Gifford

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October 18, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois, The United States

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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 for Lost Highway with Lynch. Much of Gifford's work is nonfiction.


Average rating: 3.77 · 1,893 ratings · 165 reviews · 90 distinct works
Wild at Heart
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 415 ratings — published 1990 — 6 editions
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3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 1978 — 5 editions
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Perdita Durango
3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 1992 — 5 editions
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Night People
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3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions
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The Wild Life of Sailor and...
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions
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Sailor's Holiday
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1991 — 5 editions
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Port Tropique
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1980 — 9 editions
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Baby Cat-Face
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions
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The Sinaloa Story
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions
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Wyoming
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions
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“The world is really wild at heart and weird on top.”
Barry Gifford, Wild at Heart

“In the picture, Ava Gardner's tousled black hair obscured her right eye, and her full, closed lips were pulled slightly to the right, resulting in something less than a smile. They looked as if they'd been smeared shut with red paint, though the photo was in black and white. It wasn't so much a fuck-me face as a I've-been-there-and-back look, the kind of expression you see only on the most expensive whores.”
Barry Gifford, Perdita Durango

“This is something an ordinary man can never know. You will enter the House of Dreams, Juanito, where you will live forever. Your mother and father and sisters and brothers, your grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, all you will greet in their dreams. And only you, among them, will be safe.”
Barry Gifford, Perdita Durango

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