Adapted from a novella in Sailor's Holiday, this graphic novel introduces Perdita, a Tex-Mex femme fatale. It was one thing to turn an occasional trick to survive, but now Perdita's fallen in with a mysterious drug dealer, and they've kidnapped a gringo couple. As they head for Cajun Country, the group is soon lost in a landscape of sex, violence, and otherworldly mystery.

Barry Gifford's Perdita Durango: A Graphic Thriller (Neon Lit)

Literature & Fiction

Barry Gifford

United States

Avon/Books

Five interconnected novellas--"59 and Raining," "Sailor's Holiday," "The Sultans of Africa," "Consuelo's Kiss," and "Bad Day for the Leopard Man"--relate the adventures of Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune, two eccentric Southern lovers

Sailor's Holiday: The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula

Literary

Random House]

Very clean first edition in clean unclipped dust jacket. Pale gray boards with white lettering on spine. Nice sharp unworn corners, slight bumping to spine ends. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 142 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped, vertical creasing to front inside flap. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Author's first full-length novel is an unusual, captivating exporation into the life of a single man. Written in the form used by the classic Japanese writer Sei Shonagon in her "Pillow Book"--short, essayistic stories or tales woven around a central moral--this landscape is the self-portrait of a man who, often swept away by passion in his youth, approaches his later years with increasing distance and an almost Zen-like tranquility.

Landscape with Traveler: The Pillow Book of Francis Reeves

Contemporary

Dutton Adult

'Jack Kerouac died in 1969 at the age of forty-seven ...Most of his friends survived him. Our idea was to seek them out and talk with them about Jack's life and their own lives. The final result, we hoped, would be a big, transcontinental conversation, complete with interruptions, contradictions, old grudges and bright memories, all of them providing a reading of the man himself through the people he chose to populate his work.' In this kaleidoscopic portrait of Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Carolyn Cassady, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Gore Vidal and many others talk, argue and reminisce about their times with him. But alongside these luminaries of the Beat generation are the voices of those who knew a different side of Kerouac: the working men, the childhood friends, the bar companions, the lovers.  Fascinating, honest and richer than any orthodox biography could be, Jack's Book documents Kerouac's genius in its full, tragic, contradictory glory.

Jack's Book

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Canongate Books Ltd.

A documentary-style, behind-the-scenes look at thoroughbred racing and the extraordinary characters who make their living through hard work, horse sense, and luck.

A Day at the Races

Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly

Book by Andrei Codrescu, D.H. Lawrence, James Laughlin, Allen Ginsberg, Barry Gifford, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ezra Pound

Ends and Beginnings (City Lights Review, No. 6)

Allen GINSBERG

Andrei Codrescu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Ezra, Pound

James Laughlin

D.H.Lawrence

CITY LIGHTS

A novel of violence, of love, and introspection, The Up-Down follows a man who leaves home and all that's familiar, finds true love, loses it, and finds it again. Pace's voyage is outward, among strangers, and inward into the fifth direction that is the up-down, in a sweeping, voracious human tale that takes no prisoners, witnesses extreme brutalities and expresses a childlike amazement. Here the route goes from New Orleans, to Chicago to Wyoming to Bay St. Clement, North Carolina, but the geography he is charting is always first and foremost unchartable.

Up-Down, The (Sailor & Lula)

Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio

The Roy Stories

Seven Stories Press

El padre fantasma

Ediciones Destino

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