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Sad Stories of the Death of Kings
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 fa...more
Paperback, 208 pages
Published
October 19th 2010
by Seven Stories Press
(first published October 1st 2010)
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Mar 02, 2011
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Reading this book in an ongoing attempt to understand what it means to be a teenage boy.
pst. Portalnd peeps, Powell's reading this Wednesday (15). Willy will be playing from his super depressing Christmas album also - good times!
pst. Portalnd peeps, Powell's reading this Wednesday (15). Willy will be playing from his super depressing Christmas album also - good times!
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These loosely connected short stories about a young neighborhood street tough (Roy) are strung together in "Sad Stories" to imply a wise guy coming of age. Although Roy seems to be more of a see-er than a do-er the observations are no less interesting. In many ways it reminded me of Scorsese's "Good Fellas" but for teenagers. There are odd characters, crimes, and lessons learned here that sometimes brought me back to my youth. There is a man that claimed to be Einstein's son and a kid whose par...more
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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.
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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,...more
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