American Falls

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Now in paperback, the acclaimed short story collection from David Lynch's partner in crime, the grinning master of violent American satire Barry Gifford, author of Wild at Heart and Lost Highway. Ranging in style and period from the 1950s to the present, from absurdist exercises to romantic tales, from stories about childhood to novellas of murder and revenge, this is a book in which there are no simple endings, only happy beginnings.

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[Gifford] makes Camus look like Pollyanna. . . . If you bemoan the lack of something 'different' in fiction, your search is over. Andrew Vachss, Chicago Tribune


Barry Gifford is a great writer, may Heaven and all help him, consequently. William Saroyan


Giddord's people are pure American; pure in their madness, in their evil; and, to read about, pure pleasure. Alan Cheuse, NPR

Author Bio

Barry Gifford is the author of over forty published works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. He has won multiple awards from PEN and the National Endowment for the Arts among others.