|Listed in category:
Have one to sell?

Sailor and Lula : The Complete Novels by Barry Gifford (2010, Trade Paperback)

Burning Empire
(768)
Registered as a business seller
US $42.99
Approximately£32.36
Condition:
Good
People are checking this out. 4 have added this to their Watchlist.
Postage:
Free USPS Media MailTM.
Located in: Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Delivery:
Estimated between Thu, 7 Aug and Mon, 11 Aug
Delivery time is estimated using our proprietary method which is based on the buyer's proximity to the item location, the delivery service selected, the seller's delivery history and other factors. Delivery times may vary, especially during peak periods.
Returns:
No returns accepted.
Payments:
    Diners Club

Shop with confidence

eBay Money Back Guarantee
Get the item you ordered or your money back. Learn moreeBay Money Back Guarantee - opens new window or tab
Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing.
eBay item number:126893799514
Last updated on 10 May, 2025 17:43:17 BSTView all revisionsView all revisions

Item specifics

Condition
Good: A book that has been read, but is in good condition. Minimal damage to the book cover eg. ...
Type
Novel
Signed
No
Ex Libris
No
Book Series
Sailor and Lula
Narrative Type
Fiction
Personalized
No
Original Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Intended Audience
Adults
ISBN
9781583229101

About this product

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Seven Stories Press
ISBN-10
1583229108
ISBN-13
9781583229101
eBay Product ID (ePID)
117158784

Product Key Features

Book Title
Sailor and Lula : the Complete Novels
Number of Pages
618 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Topic
General, Literary, Action & Adventure, Noir
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Author
Barry Gifford
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
19.6 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2010-008181
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Barry Gifford invented his own American vernacular--William Faulkner by way of B-movie film noir, porn paperbacks, and Sun Records rockabilly--to forge the stealth-epic of Sailor & Lula . His accomplishment looks more and more like one of the permanent glories of recent storytelling, a set of crude masterpieces like Philip Guston's late paintings. The compression and verve on view on every page of this compendium is as irresistible and dizzying as a dish of brandy-filled chocolates forged in shapes of pistols, hangmen's ropes, convertible automobiles, and unclad, steamy bodies, daring you to keep gobbling them up." -Jonathan Lethem "I saw Sailor and Lula in love in the middle of a crazy, violent, wild world, and I wanted to go on that trip with them ... It's like looking into the Garden of Eden before things went bad." -David Lynch "Barry Gifford is now more than forty years and forty books into his career, yet still no one seems to know what to do with him ... The experience of reading Gifford is like starting a car and realizing, too late, that someone has cut its brake lines. A spectacular wreck is imminent, so you might as well enjoy the adrenaline rush ... The thrill of the Sailor & Lula books is in seeing how horribly a human life--or an entire society--can spiral out of control. But the gruesome dismemberments, car wrecks, and point-blank gunshots only entertain for so long. The image that lingers in the reader's imagination, long after the series ends, is far more sedate and ordinary: Sailor and Lula, embracing in a cheap motel bed, telling each other stories to ward off the nightmares that they know will come." -Nathaniel Rich, New York Review of Books "There are precious few literary landscapes where this particular sort of true romance burns as hot and sweet and altogether cool as in Gifford's sprawling, epically Southern gothic novels ... a pulpy, meridianal meditation on love and death in the dirty South, hugely entertaining and often frenzied in their depiction of Sailor and Lula's misadventures into random, swampy chaos but also written in the kind of watertight, blunt-edged prose that recalls Jim Thompson filtered through some awesomely hyper-Americanized hybrid of Fellini and Katherine Dunn ... Too cool." -Marc Savlov, Austin Chronicle
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
On the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Barry Gifford's international bestseller, Wild at Heart, as well as the anniversary of the Palme d'Or-winning film adaptation by director David Lynch, Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels presents all of the novels and novellas that comprise the saga of Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune, "the Romeo and Juliet of the South": Wild at Heart, Perdita Durango (also made into a feature film), Sailor's Holiday, Sultans of Africa, Consuelo's Kiss, Bad Day for the Leopard Man, and The Imagination of the Heart., On the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Barry Gifford's international bestseller, Wild at Heart, as well as the anniversary of the Palme d'Or-winning film adaptation by director David Lynch, Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels presents all of the novels and novellas that comprise the saga of Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune, "the Romeo and Juliet of the South" Wild at Heart, Perdita Durango (also made into a feature film), Sailor's Holiday, Sultans of Africa, Consuelo's Kiss, Bad Day for the Leopard Man, and The Imagination of the Heart., On the 20th anniversary of the publicaton of Barry Gifford's acclaimed international bestseller, Wild at Heart (Grafton), and the anniversary of David Lynch's award-winning eponymous film, Sailor and Lula: The Complete Novels presents all the stories that comprise the saga of Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune, the Romeo and Juliet of the South. 'It's like looking into the Garden of Eden before things went bad.' - David Lynch 'A dark and comic ride through a fantasy America that rings desperately true.' - New York Times
LC Classification Number
PS3557.I283S24 2010

Item description from the seller

Seller business information

About this seller

Burning Empire

100% positive Feedback1.3K items sold

Joined Mar 2010
Usually responds within 24 hours
Registered as a business seller
Burning Empire is a media production company, publisher, and an online retail, resell, and consignment store of books, movies, musical instruments/equipment, collectibles, and more!

Detailed seller ratings

Average for the last 12 months
Accurate description
5.0
Reasonable postage cost
5.0
Delivery time
5.0
Communication
5.0

Seller Feedback (619)

All ratings
Positive
Neutral
Negative
  • 3***5 (124)- Feedback left by buyer.
    Past year
    Verified purchase
    The watch is as described and a very fine value. Packaging was excellent and delivery quick. Great transaction. Thank you!
  • k***e (131)- Feedback left by buyer.
    Past year
    Verified purchase
    Description was accurate. Shipping cost reasonable. Great price. Fast delivery. Arrived packaged carefully and protected. Excellent experience!
  • r***9 (729)- Feedback left by buyer.
    Past 6 months
    Verified purchase
    Great seller. As described