- Paperback: 159 pages
- Publisher: Vintage Books; Mti edition (Aug 1990)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0679734392
- ISBN-13: 978-0679734390
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.2 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 966,790 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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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As I presume will be the case with many people I came to the novel of Wild at Heart being already familiar with David Lynch film version, which turns out to have been a fairly faithful adaptation. Much of the quotable dialogue from the novel survived the transition from page to screen, and aside from Lynch's additional 'feel-good' ending most of the differences are a tightening of the backstory (the whole connection between Sailor, Lula's mother and dead father is absent here) and a hyping up of the darker elements (the novels Bobby Peru is noticeably less intense than the movie version, while Marcelo Santos and the dire fate of Johnny Faragut are nowhere to be found). While 'Wild At Heart' as a novel is incredibly short on actual plot what it does boast is some tremendously vivid characters, with most of the novel consisting of small vignettes of characters telling stories to each other on the road.
A short but vivid, and very readable novel.
A short but vivid, and very readable novel.
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barry gifford's "wild at heart" is a quick read, and by that i mean, you don't want to stop reading it. the entire novel seems to be a seamless unraveling of stories within stories; each major character in the novel tells at least two stories or has some dialogue revealing the unique niches of their personality. gifford's book reveals the strange and fascinating lives of people you sometimes meet travelling through the underbelly of the deep south; it probes a lot of anthropological and psychological territory without being pretentious or trite. it's a terrific book.
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"Wild at Heart" was filmed by critically acclaimed director David Lynch and it is easy to see why he found this novel exciting to put on widescreen. Gifford does have distinctive look at some certain people's lifestyles in our society who are usually ignored by the makers of fiction. "Wild at Heart" is a strong book that grips you from page one. One should be noted, however, that Gifford is an author to adour or to hate, like the characters in his books he is no person of gray. Two artists' collobration continued this year with the movie "The Lost Highway."
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