EBOOK Roy Stories

Barry Gifford has been writing gritty, American tales for the past forty years. His novels, stories, poetry, and films have helped shape the American neo-noir genre. The New York Times Book Review says that he "e;can sum up in a few words the cruelty, horror, and crushing banality that shape an entire life.' Andrei Codrescu calls Gifford ';a great comic realist,' while Pedro AlmodAAAaAAvar likens him to the surrealist filmmaker Luis Buuel, and Jonathan Lethem describes his style as ';William Faulkner by way of B-movie film noir, porn paperbacks, and Sun Records rockabilly.' In The Roy StoriesGifford brings his signature style to a collection of tales following the character of Roy, who has made appearances in a number of Gifford's previous story collections. Roy lives a mystical kind of life, skinning crocodiles in Southern Florida at age nine in the 1940s and playing in the back alleys of Chicago in the 1950s. This deep-feeling boy observes every detail in his surroundings with a sense of dark humor and an openness that will clutch readers tightly by the heart and lead them on a historical journey.From the Trade Paperback edition.