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Sailor’s Holiday, or The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula

by Barry Gifford

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Wild at Heart introduced readers to Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune, the most sex-driven, star-crossed lovers since Romeo and Juliet. Now they’re back. Previously published as Sailor’s Holiday, The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula picks up with their wild life as they evade murderers, track down their kidnapped son and watch him acquire his daddy’s predilection for trouble, and cross paths with, among others, the Reverend Goodin Plenty and the unflappable nymphet Consuelo Whynot. The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula is a funny, eerie, and sexy book with the velocity of a runaway truck.

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Wild at Heart introduced readers to Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune, the most sex-driven, star-crossed lovers since Romeo and Juliet. Now they’re back. Previously published as Sailor’s Holiday, The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula picks up with their wild life as they evade murderers, track down their kidnapped son and watch him acquire his daddy’s predilection for trouble, and cross paths with, among others, the Reverend Goodin Plenty and the unflappable nymphet Consuelo Whynot. The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula is a funny, eerie, and sexy book with the velocity of a runaway truck.

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About Barry

Barry Gifford’s novels have been translated into twenty-eight languages. His book Night People was awarded the Premio Brancati in Italy, and he has been the recipient of awards from PEN, the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Library Association, the...

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Published Reviews

Nov.20.2007

Some of His Best Friends

Published by The New York Times

In The Phantom Father, Mr. Gifford has chosen to go after literary rather than historical effect and, to a degree, to re-mystify his dad. The result, alongside the new material, is a book that...

Dec.13.2007

Still Wild at Heart, and Even Weirder

Published by The New York Times

Barry Gifford’s new collection of stories, Sailor’s Holiday, is a kind of sequel to Wild at Heart, his 1990 novel. … Lula, the heroine of Wild at Heart was given to pet aphorisms...