The Up-Down
  • Published: 15 December 2016
  • ISBN: 9781609807146
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $26.99

The Up-Down

A Novel

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Paperback
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 December 2016
  • ISBN: 9781609807146
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $26.99
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Praise for The Up-Down

"Gifford is a master of the set piece in the tradition of Nelson Algren: larger-than-life characters, ribald dialogue and an uninhibited spirit that seesaws between the profound and the profane."--Los Angeles Times

"Fans of Gifford's earlier work will surely enjoy this final trip with familiar characters, but the novel is equally successful for those unfamiliar with Sailor and Lula's history, for the author works wonders filling in the gaps on past events throughout. A rambling victory."--Publishers Weekly

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