The Up-Down
  • Published: 15 January 2015
  • ISBN: 9781609805777
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $49.99

The Up-Down

A Novel

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15 Dec 2016
Hardback
15 Jan 2015
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A breakthrough novel from an American master about lost loves and the search for meaning in unlikely places.

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.
  • Published: 15 January 2015
  • ISBN: 9781609805777
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $49.99
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Praise for The Up-Down

"The way Barry Gifford lets people talk articulates everything about their unfamiliar inner lives, and ours."--Boston Globe
"Gifford is a master."--Los Angeles Times
"Gifford cuts right through the heart of what makes a good novel readable and entertaining. . . . The way Barry Gifford does it, it's high art."--Elmore Leonard
"Gifford, a master of the short story and nasty vignette, can sum up in a few words the cruely, horror, and crushing banality that shape an entire life."--New York Times Book Review

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