Memories from a Sinking Ship A Novel
, by Gifford, Barry- ISBN: 9781583228753 | 1583228756
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/2/2009
Reminiscent of Mark Twainrs"s Huckleberry Finn and Ernest Hemingwayrs"s Nick Adams stories, Memories from a Sinking Ship travels the landscape of a turbulent world seen through a boyrs"s steady gaze. Like Twainrs"s Mississippi River and Hemingwayrs"s Big Two-Hearted, Giffordrs"s Chicago, New Orleans, and the highways and byways between offer us mesmerizing lives lost in the kaleidoscope of postwar America, and in particular those of Royrs"s adrift and disappointed mother and his hoodlum father.