Barry Gifford

The Roy Stories (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Barry Gifford has been writing gritty, American tales for the past forty years. His novels, stories, poetry, and films have helped shape the American neo-noir genre. The New York Times Book Review says that he "can sum up in a few words the cruelty, horror, and crushing banality that shape an entire life." Andrei Codrescu calls Gifford "a great comic realist," while Pedro Almodóvar likens him to the surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel, and Jonathan Lethem describes his style as "William Faulkner by way of B-movie film noir, porn paperbacks, and Sun Records rockabilly." In The Roy Stories Gifford brings his signature style to a collection of tales following the character of Roy, who has made appearances in a number of Gifford's previous story collections. Roy lives a mystical kind of life, skinning crocodiles in Southern Florida at age nine in the 1940s and playing in the back alleys of Chicago in the 1950s. This deep-feeling boy observes every detail in his surroundings with a sense of dark humor and an openness that will clutch readers tightly by the heart and lead them on a historical journey.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Seven Stories Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781609804985
• Artikelnr.: 39514443

Autorenporträt

The author of more than forty works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, which have been translated into over twenty-five languages, BARRY GIFFORD writes distinctly American stories for readers around the globe. From screenplays and librettos to his acclaimed Sailor and Lula novels, Gifford's writing is as distinctive as it is difficult to classify. Born in the Seneca Hotel on Chicago's Near North Side, he relocated in his adolescence to New Orleans. The move proved significant: throughout his career, Gifford's fiction-part-noir, part-picaresque, always entertaining-is born of the clash between what he has referred to as his "Northern Side" and "Southern Side." Gifford has been recipient of awards from PEN, the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Library Association, the Writers Guild of America and the Christopher Isherwood Foundation. His novel Wild at Heart was adapted into the 1990 Palme d'Or-winning film of the same name. Gifford lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
Preface
.................................................................... 15
The Vast Difference....................................... 17
Alligator Story
.............................................................................
19 
The Vast
Difference..................................................................
25
The Birdbath
...............................................................................
29
Real Bandits
................................................................................
33
The Red Stuebaker
................................................................ 36
The
Trumpet................................................................................40
Unspoken
.....................................................................................
44
Haircut
...........................................................................................
48
The Invention of Rock ’n’
Roll................................................ 51
Infantry..........................................................................................
54
Drifting Down the Old Whangpoo......................................57
The Wicked of the
Earth........................................................60
Christmas Is Not For Everyone............................................
63
Memories from a Sinking Ship.............. 65
Memories from a Sinking Ship .............................................
67
A Good Man to
Know..............................................................70
The Forgotten
.............................................................................73
Mrs.
Kashfi....................................................................................
76
The Old
Country........................................................................
79
The Monster
.................................................................................
81
The
Ciné........................................................................................
82
Dark Mink
.....................................................................................
86
Nanny
............................................................................................
89
Island in the Sun
.........................................................................
91
An Eye on the Alligators
........................................................ 94
The Piano
Lesson......................................................................96
The Lost
Tribe.............................................................................
97
The Lost
Christmas...................................................................101
My
Catechism............................................................................103
Sunday Paper
...........................................................................
106
The Origin of Truth
................................................................. 108
The
Trophy...................................................................................112
The Aerodynamics of an Irishman......................................117
A Rainy Day at the Nortown Theater................................119
Renoir’s Chemin montant dans les hautes herbes ....... 121
Forever After
.............................................................................
122
The Mason-Dixon
Line............................................................125
The Wedding
.............................................................................
128
The Pitcher
.................................................................................129
A Place in the
Sun.....................................................................131
The
Winner.................................................................................133
The God of Birds
...................................................................... 137
Sundays and
Tibor.................................................................. 140
Poor Children of Israel
...........................................................143
The Man Who Wanted to Get the Bad Taste
of the World Out of His Mouth.....................................145
Johnny
Across...........................................................................148
The Secret of Little White
Dove.........................................154 
The
Delivery...............................................................................158 
The Deep Blue See
................................................................. 160 
Radio Goldberg
........................................................................162
Why Skull Dorfman Went to Arkansas............................166 
Wanted
Man...............................................................................170
10 the roy stories
The Bucharest Prize
................................................................ 174 
Blows with Sticks Raining
Hard..........................................177 
The Chinaman
............................................................................181 
The End of
Racism...................................................................183 
Way Down in Egypt
Land.....................................................187 
Bad Things
Wrong....................................................................191 
Detente at the Flying
Horse.................................................194
Shattered.....................................................................................198
A Day’s Worth of Beauty
.................................................... 200 
The Peterson
Fire...................................................................
204 
Door to the River
................................................................... 206 
Sailing in the Sea of Red He Sees a
Black Ship on the Horizon..............................................210
Wyoming............................................................. 213
Cobratown
..................................................................................
215
Chinese Down the
Amazon..................................................218 
Bandages
....................................................................................219 
Soul Talk
.....................................................................................
223
Skylark.........................................................................................
225 
Flamingos
..................................................................................228 
Wyoming
....................................................................................230 
Saving the
Planet....................................................................232 
A Nice Day on the Ocean
.................................................... 233 
Perfect
Spanish........................................................................235 
Seconds
......................................................................................
237
Roy’s
World...............................................................................239
Nomads.......................................................................................
242 
Ducks on the
Pond.................................................................245
Sound of the
River..................................................................247
Red
Highway.............................................................................249
Lucky
............................................................................................
251 
K.C. So Far (Seconds/Alternate Take).............................253 
Concertina
Locomotion........................................................255 
Imagine
.......................................................................................256
The Geography of
Heaven...................................................258 
Man and Fate
...........................................................................
260
Where Osceola
Lives.............................................................262 
The Crime of Pass
Christian................................................264 
Cool
Breeze...............................................................................267 
Night
Owl...................................................................................269
Islamorada
.................................................................................270
On the
Arm................................................................................
273 
Look Out
Below.......................................................................
275 
The Up and
Up.........................................................................277
Black
Space..............................................................................
280
Fear and
Desire........................................................................282
God’s
Tornado..........................................................................284
Sad Stories of the Death of Kings.... 287
The Age of
Fable.....................................................................289 
The Great
Failure......................................................................291
Irredeemable.............................................................................
293 
Sad Stories of the Death of Kings ....................................296 
The
Sultan.................................................................................300 
The Liberian Condition
........................................................ 304 
Six Million and
One.................................................................307 
War and
Peace...........................................................................311
Chop Suey Joint
.......................................................................314
Significance
................................................................................
318
Einstein’s
Son............................................................................320 
The Albanian
Florist...............................................................324
The
Weeper...............................................................................328 
The Swedish
Bakery................................................................331 
The Man Who Swallowed the World...............................335 
Ghost Ship
................................................................................
340 
Caca
Negra................................................................................343
Roy’s First
Car..........................................................................347 
El
Carterista...............................................................................350 
Crime and Punishment
.........................................................354 
The American
Language......................................................357
Lonely Are the Brave
............................................................ 360
Force of
Evil..............................................................................364 
The
Choice.................................................................................367
Bad Girls
......................................................................................
371
The Sudden Demise of Sharkface Bensky.....................376 
Portrait of the Artist with Four Other Guys................. 380
The Starving Dogs of Little Croatia.................................383 
In the Land of the
Dead........................................................387
The Secret of the
Universe..................................................389
Far from Anywhere
.................................................................391
Rain in the Distance
...............................................................395
Bad Night at the Del
Prado.................................................398
The Theory of the Leisure Class ....................................... 403
Innamorata
...............................................................................
406
The Exception
.........................................................................
409
Close Encounters of the Right Kind .................................413
Blue People
................................................................................418
Call of the Wild
....................................................................... 420
Arabian Nights
.........................................................................424
Last Plane out of
Chungking..............................................426
The Vanished Gardens of Córdoba..................................428
Benediction
...............................................................................429