Memories from a Sinking Ship
  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781583227626
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $45.00

Memories from a Sinking Ship

A Novel

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1 Aug 2011
Hardback
1 Aug 2011
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Winner of the 2007 Christopher Isherwood Foundation Award for Fiction

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.
  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781583227626
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $45.00
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