Memories from a Sinking Ship
Synopsis:
The coming-of-age novel that Barry Gifford was born to write, Memories from a Sinking Ship recounts a uniquely American childhood and adolescence through a boy’s travels with his mother and occasional time spent with an ailing gangster father. Memories from a Sinking Ship completes the spellbinding, largely autobiographical account begun previously in Wyoming and in the memoir The Phantom Father, set against the backdrop of 1950s and 1960s Chicago, the Florida Keys, and New Orleans—an America that has disappeared except in memory.
Topics/Categories:
Adolescence, Autobiographical Fiction, Chicago, Childhood, Coming of Age, Florida, Mothers and Sons, New Orleans
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Awards:
Winner of the Christopher Isherwood Foundation Prize for Fiction
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Original Publish Date:
2007-09-25
ISBNs:
1583227628
Formats:
Hardcover
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