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The Boy Who Ran Away to Sea : Stories by BARRY, 1946- GIFFORD is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Boy Who Ran Away to Sea : Stories about?
A childhood in the 1950s and ‘60s among grifters, show girls, and mob enforcers who embraced the boy and made him who he is. “These stories make for one of the most important and moving American bildungsromans of all time.” —William Boyle, The Southwest Review Roy tells it the way he sees it, shuttled between Chicago to Key West and Tampa, Havana and Jackson MS, usually with his mother Kitty, often in the company of lip-sticked women and fast men. Roy is the muse of Gifford’s hardboiled style, a
Who reads The Boy Who Ran Away to Sea : Stories?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- BARRY, 1946- GIFFORD
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781644211533
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Short Stories, Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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