Beyond God & The Devil: Novellas and Stories, New and Selected
Barry Gifford
Jul 2027 · Seven Stories Press
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Author Barry Gifford chooses the novellas and stories that define his short-form fiction writing career.
A contemporary master of American fiction, drama, and nonfiction, Barry Gifford’s novellas and stories are less well-known than novels like Wild at Heart, but his short fiction is the core of his creative output and includes some of his finest work. After releasing many story collections, here for the first time he assembles what he considers to be his most enduring novellas and stories.
In the title novella, a child leaves home to escape the predation of her mother’s boyfriend. In “Ball Lightning,” Amelia learns where her brother disappeared to, but not why. And in “Do the Blind Dream,” an Italian family mourns the death of its matriarch and at the same time lets all the injustices and feuds that lay under the surface while she lived rise to the surface. Then there are the Roy stories, which Gifford has been writing for half a century, in which his boyhood protagonist is able to observe the pain and wildness of the adult world with almost an anthropologist’s level-headedness.
Understated and at the same time iconic, here is Gifford’s world, told in story after story, an America that is unhinged and unstoppable.
A contemporary master of American fiction, drama, and nonfiction, Barry Gifford’s novellas and stories are less well-known than novels like Wild at Heart, but his short fiction is the core of his creative output and includes some of his finest work. After releasing many story collections, here for the first time he assembles what he considers to be his most enduring novellas and stories.
In the title novella, a child leaves home to escape the predation of her mother’s boyfriend. In “Ball Lightning,” Amelia learns where her brother disappeared to, but not why. And in “Do the Blind Dream,” an Italian family mourns the death of its matriarch and at the same time lets all the injustices and feuds that lay under the surface while she lived rise to the surface. Then there are the Roy stories, which Gifford has been writing for half a century, in which his boyhood protagonist is able to observe the pain and wildness of the adult world with almost an anthropologist’s level-headedness.
Understated and at the same time iconic, here is Gifford’s world, told in story after story, an America that is unhinged and unstoppable.
Author Barry Gifford chooses the novellas and stories that define his short-form fiction writing career.
A contemporary master of American fiction, drama, and nonfiction, Barry Gifford’s novellas and stories are less well-known than novels like Wild at Heart, but his short fiction is the core of...
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BARRY GIFFORD began writing stories in Chicago in 1956, when he was ten years old. His books include Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels, Roy’s World: Stories 1973−2020, Southern Nights, The Boy Who Ran Away to Sea, Ghost Years, No Daylight in That Face, and Disappearances: Drawings. The New York Times Book Review proclaimed him “a master of the short story.” He has been the recipient of the Maxwell Perkins Award and Syndicated Fiction Awards from PEN, as well as awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Library Association, the Writers Guild of America, and the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, and his literary archive is housed at Stanford University. Gifford’s film credits include Wild at Heart, winner of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Perdita Durango, Lost Highway, City of Ghosts, The Phantom Father, and Roy’s World. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
BARRY GIFFORD began writing stories in Chicago in 1956, when he was ten years old. His books include Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels, Roy’s World: Stories 1973−2020, Southern Nights, The Boy Who Ran Away to Sea, Ghost Years, No Daylight in That Face, and Disappearances: Drawings. The New York ...
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