Wild at Heart (Gifford, Barry)
by Barry Gifford
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Author: Barry GiffordEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1996-04-03
ISBN: 080213453X
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: Grove Press
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Book Review: A fun road trip told through dialogue
Summary: 4 Stars
Barry Gifford's book is a quick fun read that will appeal to fans of the movie as well as fans of pulp fiction, and I'm not talking about the Tarantino film. Gifford has a good ear for spoken language and he uses this to great effect in the book. There is little actual narration in the book. Instead all the chapters are comprised of conversations. Character, motivation and plot are all revealed in dialogue.
Combined with extremely short chapters and you have a rapid fire ride with an assortment of colorful characters. The dialogue is quirky, funny and insightful as well.
I've read the book twice and the first time I was expecting it to be more like the film. It's easy to see where elements of the film came from. Most of Sailor and Lula's dialogue is right from the book. However, David Lynch added his own touch to the film, and gave it a more magical, dreamlike twist. These are two sides of the same story. Gifford's take is just as entertaining, but seems to come at the story from a slightly different angle.
This is an enjoyable book, one that I'm sure I'll revisit again. It's great for a quick read, especially after a more weighty and dense book.
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