Title: Memories from a sinking ship
First published: 2007
Description: Reminiscent of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Ernest Hemingway's Nick Adams stories, Memories from a Sinking Ship travels the landscape of a turbulent world seen through a boy’s steady gaze. Like Twain’s Mississippi River and Hemingway’s Big Two-Hearted, Gifford’s Chicago, New Orleans, and the highways and byways between offer us mesmerizing lives lost in the kaleidoscope of postwar America, in particular those of Roy’s adrift and disappointed mother and his hoodlum father.
Subjects: Fiction, Nineteen fifties, Boys, Nineteen sixties, Parent and child, Childhood and youth, Adolescence, Fiction, general, United states, fiction
Places: Chicago (Ill.), New Orleans (La.)
People: Barry Gifford (1946-)