The Rooster Trapped In The Reptile Room
A Barry Gifford Reader
$49.76
- Paperback
640 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2011
Summary
“Everything I have to say about race and religion and politics is in the novels,” declares Barry Gifford. The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room gathers generous portions of all thirteen novels and novellas, as well as first-person essays, generous helpings of poetry, journalism, and a new interview with the author. The broad contours of an episodic output emerge-a full-length view of the freaks and freakish incidents that populate Gifford’s unique human comedy. A world, as Lula, the author’…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781583225257 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1583225250 |
| Author: | Barry Gifford |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 640 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 638g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 152mm |
| Series: | A Barry Gifford reader |
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“Nearly every Gifford story opens a Pandora’s box of uncontainable emotions… . There’s no one like Barry Gifford, which is the best reason to read him.” -Richard Dyer, Boston Globe
“Nearly every Gifford story opens a Pandora’s box of uncontainable emotions… . There’s no one like Barry Gifford, which is the best reason to read him.” –Richard Dyer, Boston Globe
About The Author
Barry Gifford
Barry Gifford’s book Night People was awarded the Premio Brancati in Italy, and he has been the recipient of awards from PEN, the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Library Association, and the Writers Guild. David Lynch’s film based on Wild at Heart won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990, and Gifford co-wrote with Lynch the film Lost Highway, as well as the screenplay City of Ghosts with director Matt Damon. His recent books include Wyoming (named a Best Novel of the Year by the Los Angeles Times), and American Falls: The Collected Short Stories (also available from Turnaround).
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