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- Publisher: ATLANTIC MONTHLY @ PRESS (1993)
- ASIN: B000SFMPLE
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Night People is probably the best book I have ever read.,
This review is from: Night People (Gifford, Barry) (Paperback)
This book is a brilliant web of intertwining stories that left me wishing I could meet it's characters for coffee. Barry Gifford must be the best author in the world right now. His style is unmatched, and his subject matter is great. Gifford makes the strange commonplace while his characters try to tether themselves to reality. A beautiful book!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Gifford's finest,
This review is from: Night People (Gifford, Barry) (Paperback)
More than any other writer I can think of, Barry Gifford understand the impact of the written word. He is able to create several memorable characters in just over two hundred pages, with chapters lasting no more than a few pages each. Ten years have passed since I first read this book, but its characters are still etched in my mind. In a perfect world Barry Gifford would be as famous as Elmore Leonard, instead Gifford is criminally underrated.David Lynch was supposed to make a film adaptation of this book. Too bad he didn't. The book's twisty narrative would have revolutionized cinema as much as Pulp Fiction did.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Enjoyable,
This review is from: Night People (Gifford, Barry) (Paperback)
If there is one thing I love about Barry,it's his talent for creating original offbeat characters.This book is fun.It isn't meant to be taken too seriously.Therefore the sensible thing to do is not take it seriously.Just read it and have a good time.That's what I did.
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Big Betty Stalcup kissed Miss Cutie Early on the right earlobe as Cutie drove, tickling her, causing Cutie to swerve the black Dodge Monaco toward the right as she scratched at that side of her head. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Big Betty, New Orleans, John Brown, Easy Earl, Defillo Humble, Dallas Salt, Sabine Yama, Egypt City, Bobbie Dean, Miss Jesus, Baton Rouge, Marble Lesson, Miss Cutie, Trocadero Island, Wes Lesson, Alfonzo's Mexicali, Fatima Verdad, Miz Alfonzo, Earl Blakey, Brother Dallas, Bunk Colby, Rollo Lamar, Sister Dilys, Bayou Goula, Beatifica Brown New!
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Big Betty Stalcup kissed Miss Cutie Early on the right earlobe as Cutie drove, tickling her, causing Cutie to swerve the black Dodge Monaco toward the right as she scratched at that side of her head. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Big Betty, New Orleans, John Brown, Easy Earl, Defillo Humble, Dallas Salt, Sabine Yama, Egypt City, Bobbie Dean, Miss Jesus, Baton Rouge, Marble Lesson, Miss Cutie, Trocadero Island, Wes Lesson, Alfonzo's Mexicali, Fatima Verdad, Miz Alfonzo, Earl Blakey, Brother Dallas, Bunk Colby, Rollo Lamar, Sister Dilys, Bayou Goula, Beatifica Brown New!
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- Landscape with traveler: The pillow book of Francis Reeves by Barry Gifford in Front Matter
- Saroyan: A Biography by Lawrence Lee in Front Matter
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by Traven on page 32
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by B. Traven on page 32
- Selected Poems C Day Lewis by C Day Lewis in Front Matter
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- Out of the Past: Adventures in Film Noir by Barry Gifford in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Back in America by Barry Gifford in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Do the Blind Dream?: New Novellas and Stories by Barry Gifford in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Sinaloa Story: A Novel by Barry Gifford in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice by Greil Marcus on page 124
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