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Barry Gifford
(Barry Colby Gifford)
(b.1946)The author of more than forty published works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, which have been translated into more than twenty-five languages, Barry Gifford is one of the few contemporary American writers whose characters are familiar to audiences around the world. Recipient of awards from PEN, the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Library Association, and the Writers Guild of America, Gifford is one of the enduring voices of his generation.
Genres: Literary Fiction
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Series
Sailor and Lula
1. Wild At Heart (1990)
2. Perdita Durango (1996)
3. Sailor's Holiday (1991)
4. Sultans of Africa (1991)
5. Consuelo's Kiss (1991)
6. Bad Day for the Leopard Man (1992)
59 Degrees and Raining (1992)
The Wild Life Of Sailor And Lula (1992)
7. The Imagination of the Heart (2009)
1. Wild At Heart (1990)
2. Perdita Durango (1996)
3. Sailor's Holiday (1991)
4. Sultans of Africa (1991)
5. Consuelo's Kiss (1991)
6. Bad Day for the Leopard Man (1992)
59 Degrees and Raining (1992)
The Wild Life Of Sailor And Lula (1992)
7. The Imagination of the Heart (2009)
Novels
A Boy's Novel (1973)
Port Tropique (1980)
An Unfortunate Woman (1984)
A Good Man to Know (1992)
Night People (1992)
Arise and Walk (1994)
Baby Cat-Face (1995)
The Sinaloa Story (1998)
Wyoming (2000)
The Up-down (2015)
Port Tropique (1980)
An Unfortunate Woman (1984)
A Good Man to Know (1992)
Night People (1992)
Arise and Walk (1994)
Baby Cat-Face (1995)
The Sinaloa Story (1998)
Wyoming (2000)
The Up-down (2015)
Collections
Coyote Tantras (poems) (1973)
The Boy You Have Always Loved (poems) (1976)
My Mother's People (1976)
Persimmons (poems) (1977)
Poems from Snail Hut (poems) (1978)
Horse Hauling Timber Out of Hokkaido Forest (poems) (1979)
Beautiful Phantoms (poems) (1981)
Giotto's Circle (poems) (1988)
Ghosts No Horse Can Carry (poems) (1988)
New Mysteries of Paris (1991)
Hotel Room Trilogy (1995)
Flaubert at Key West (poems) (1997)
My Last Martini (2000)
Replies to Wang Wei (poems) (2001)
American Falls (2002)
The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room (2003)
Do the Blind Dream? (2004)
Back in America (poems) (2004)
Elegies (poems) (2005)
The Stars Above Vera Cruz (2005)
Memories From a Sinking Ship (2007)
Sad Stories of the Death of Kings (2010)
Imagining Paradise (poems) (2012)
The Roy Stories (2013)
Writers (2015)
New York, 1960 (poems) (2016)
The Cuban Club (2017)
Roy's World: Stories 1973-2020 (2020)
The Boy Who Ran Away to Sea (2022)
Ghost Years (2024)
The Boy You Have Always Loved (poems) (1976)
My Mother's People (1976)
Persimmons (poems) (1977)
Poems from Snail Hut (poems) (1978)
Horse Hauling Timber Out of Hokkaido Forest (poems) (1979)
Beautiful Phantoms (poems) (1981)
Giotto's Circle (poems) (1988)
Ghosts No Horse Can Carry (poems) (1988)
New Mysteries of Paris (1991)
Hotel Room Trilogy (1995)
Flaubert at Key West (poems) (1997)
My Last Martini (2000)
Replies to Wang Wei (poems) (2001)
American Falls (2002)
The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room (2003)
Do the Blind Dream? (2004)
Back in America (poems) (2004)
Elegies (poems) (2005)
The Stars Above Vera Cruz (2005)
Memories From a Sinking Ship (2007)
Sad Stories of the Death of Kings (2010)
Imagining Paradise (poems) (2012)
The Roy Stories (2013)
Writers (2015)
New York, 1960 (poems) (2016)
The Cuban Club (2017)
Roy's World: Stories 1973-2020 (2020)
The Boy Who Ran Away to Sea (2022)
Ghost Years (2024)
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Books containing stories by Barry Gifford
The Second Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction (1988)
(Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction, book 2)
edited by
Ed Gorman
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