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Memories from a Sinking Ship: A Novel by Gifford, Barry, 1946- is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Memories from a Sinking Ship: A Novel about?
Winner of the 2007 Christopher Isherwood Foundation Award for Fiction Reminiscent of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Ernest Hemingway's Nick Adams stories, Memories from a Sinking Ship travels the landscape of a turbulent world seen through a boys steady gaze. Like Twains Mississippi River and Hemingways Big Two-Hearted, Giffords Chicago, New Orleans, and the highways and byways between offer us mesmerizing lives lost in the kaleidoscope of postwar America, in particular those of Roys adrift and disappointed mother and his hoodlum father.
Who reads Memories from a Sinking Ship: A Novel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Gifford, Barry, 1946-
- Publisher
- New York: Seven Stories Press
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781583227626
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.66 / 5 (34 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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