- Paperback: 159 pages
- Publisher: Vintage; Mti edition (Aug 11 1990)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0679734392
- ISBN-13: 978-0679734390
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.2 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 113 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,703,168 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
In the visual equivalent of sound bites, novelist and poet Gifford ( Ghosts No Horse Can Carry ; Port Tropique ) cuts to the heart with sharply focused shots of young lovers on the lam. "You mark me the deepest," says 20-year-old Lula Pace to Sailor Ripley as they're reunited after Sailor's two-year stint in prison for manslaughter. Though it means breaking parole for Sailor, the two leave North Carolina to escape Lula's fiercely disapproving mother Marietta, who hires a friend, short-story writing private eye Johnnie Farragut, to track them. Innocents on the road but wise to the needs of their hearts, Lula and Sailor tool along from Louisiana to Texas in a white '75 Bonneville convertible, and, when the money runs out, land in Big Tuna, where Sailor will run afoul of the law again. Sweet and foolish, pure but ordained to be defeated, Sailor and Lula represent a bittersweet ideal. A film of the novel, directed by David Lynch, is in the works.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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LULA AND HER FRIEND Beany Thorn sat at a table in the Raindrop Club drinking rum Co-Colas while watching and listening to a white blues band called The Bleach Boys. Read the first page
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LULA AND HER FRIEND Beany Thorn sat at a table in the Raindrop Club drinking rum Co-Colas while watching and listening to a white blues band called The Bleach Boys. Read the first page
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Lacks any emotion,
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This review is from: Wild At Heart (Paperback)
This book lacks an emotional core and those seeking intellectual or emotional stimulation should look elseware. The characters are stereotyped, flat and never leave the pages of the book. Gifford believes lashes of sex, violence and murder will make his Sailor and Lula stories interesting and fails dismally. Avoid!
4.0 out of 5 stars
A pleasant ride,
This review is from: Wild At Heart (Paperback)
This off-beat road novel features ex-con Sailor and his trailer-trash girlfriend, Lula, fleeing from a hitman who writes "Twilight Zone"(!) episodes for fun. Definitely not your average crime novel, it's heavy on quirky grit but surprisingly thin on plot; very little actually happens if you leave out the characters' seemingly random conversations. It's not hard to see why David Lynch found this prime material for one of his oddball cinematic experiments (he was responsible for the 1990 film adaptation), but as a novel, "Wild at Heart," though harmless fun, is just too breezy to leave much of an impression.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Too fast of a read,
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This review is from: Wild At Heart (Paperback)
One of those books you don't want to end. I feel this book is far superior to the Lynch film that came out later. Gifford definitely has a magic touch for character development. Though a VERY short book (only about 160 pages) all the characters in the book are fully developed, as is the plot. One of those great summer reads, and it'll only take you a few hours to finish.
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