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Book SynopsisFeaturing the novels: Wild at Heart, Perdita Durango, Sailor's Holiday, Sultans of Africa, Consuelo's Kiss and Bad Day for the Leopard Man
The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula presents Gifford's best prose work as he originally conceived it: six inter-locking novels which chart the riotous and stormy lives of Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune - the horribly likeable, sex-driven, star-crossed lovers immortalised in David Lynch's movie Wild at Heart.
Masterful with dialogue, and always full of vitality and humour, these novels show a writer at the height of his - considerable - talent. As Elmore Leonard said of him, "Gifford cuts right through to the heart of what makes a good novel readable and entertaining . . . the way Barry Gifford does it, it's high art."
Trade Reviewhas all the narrative nuances that have made his style synonymous with David Lynch's: the eclectic sound track, the freak-show cast of ageing and raging odd-balls, and the fractured dialogue between personal dreams and kitsch, accidental cultural guardians - it's the novel's unfilmable inner stories that propel it so speedily into the reader's fascination * * City Life * *
Gifford is a brilliant writer - a hard-boiled stylist with a soft-centred heart...His books are like the world they portray: wild at heart and weird on top. * * The Herald * *
Gifford's grim scene-setting embraces people, places, hope, courage and despair. That's plenty to be going on with. * * Literary Review * *
Intense, precise, funny, often sad - Mr Gifford is a master of precision in a strange, stark beauty of language. * * Paris Voice * *
