<DIV><p>&ldquo;I saw Sailor and Lula in love in the middle of a crazy, violent, wild world, and I wanted to go on that trip with them. . . . It&rsquo;s like looking into the Garden of Eden before things went bad.&rdquo;&mdash;David Lynch</p> <p>&ldquo;A dark and comic ride through a fantasy America that rings desperately true.&rdquo;&mdash;<I>The New York Times Book Review</I></p> <p>&ldquo;Gifford sketches marvelous characters as deftly as William Faulkner and animates them in scene after scene of hilarious dialogue. . . . Barry Gifford continues to be one of America&rsquo;s most original writers.&rdquo;&mdash;<I>Playboy</I></p> <p>On the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Barry Gifford&rsquo;s international bestseller <I>Wild at Heart</I>, as well as on the anniversary of the Cannes Palme d&rsquo;Or&ndash;winning film adaptation by director David Lynch, <I>Sailor &amp; Lula: The Complete Novels</I> presents all seven of the novels and novellas that comprise the saga of Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune, &ldquo;the Romeo and Juliet of the South&rdquo;: <I>Wild at Heart</I>, <I>Perdita Durango</I> (also made into a feature film), <I>Sailor&rsquo;s Holiday</I>, <I>Sultans of Africa</I>, <I>Consuelo&rsquo;s Kiss</I>, <I>Bad Day for the Leopard Man</I>, and <I>The Imagination of the Heart</I>.</p> <p>The author of more than forty published works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that have been translated into twenty-eight languages, <B>Barry Gifford</B> is one of the few contemporary American writers whose characters are familiar to audiences around the world. Gifford lives in the San Francisco Bay area.</p></DIV>