Roy's world : stories 1973-2020
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Roy's world : stories 1973-2020
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The work Roy's world : stories 1973-2020 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library, Britannia Branch. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- Roy's world : stories 1973-2020
- Title remainder
- stories 1973-2020
- Statement of responsibility
- Barry Gifford
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Barry Gifford has been writing the story of America in acclaimed novel after acclaimed novel for the last half-century. At the same time, he's been writing short stories, his "Roy stories," that show America from a different vantage point, a certain mix of innocence and worldliness. Reminiscent of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Ernest Hemingway's Nick Adams stories, Gifford's Roy stories amount to the coming-of-age novel he never wrote, and are one of his most important literary achievements--time-pieces that preserve the lost worlds of 1950s Chicago and the American South, the landscape of postwar America seen through the lens of a boy's steady gaze. The twists and tragedies of the adult world seem to float by like curious flotsam, like the show girls from the burlesque house next door to Roy's father's pharmacy who stop by when they need a little help, or Roy's mom and the husbands she weds and then sheds after Roy's Jewish mobster father's early death. Life throws Roy more than the usual curves, but his intelligence and curiosity shape them into something unforeseen, while Roy's complete lack of self-pity allow the stories to seem to tell themselves
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3557.I283
- LC item number
- R69 2020
- Literary form
- short stories
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