Wild at Heart (novel)

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Wild at Heart: The Story of Sailor and Lula is a 1990 novel by Barry Gifford. [1]

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Critical reception

Publishers Weekly wrote: "In the visual equivalent of sound bites, novelist and poet Gifford ... cuts to the heart with sharply focused shots of young lovers on the lam." [2] Kirkus Reviews wrote that "Gifford's South is ersatz, tarred up with Forget-Me-Not Cafes and Dixie beer, his Romeo and Juliet more treacly than tragic." [3]

Series

Wild at Heart begins the adventures of two sex-driven, star-crossed protagonists, Sailor and Lula, on the road in the American South.

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Film

The novel was adapted to the film Wild At Heart (1990) written and directed by David Lynch and starring Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern and Willem Dafoe. The adaptation won the Palme d'Or, the highest honour at the Cannes Film Festival. [4] The success of the film boosted interest in Gifford's novels.

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References

  1. "Wild at Heart and Weird on Top: Barry Gifford's Sailor and Lula Ride Again". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 6 November 2020.
  2. "Wild at Heart: The Story of Sailor and Lula". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 6 November 2020.
  3. "Book Reviews, Sites, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction". Kirkus Reviews.
  4. Chilton, John; Kernfeld, Barry (2003). Davison, Wild Bill (jazz). Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.j114900.