Author : Barry Gifford
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 33,96 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802134837
Bad girl Perdita Durango and her dealer boyfriend Romeo Dolorosa get their kicks on a journey from Louisiana to Los Angeles that involves santeria rituals and kidnapping.
Author : Bob Callahan
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 42,24 MB
Release : 1995-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780380771097
When the ravishing Tex-Mex femme fatale Perdita Durango and her small-time drug-dealing boyfriend, Romeo Dolorosa, pull out of Texas with two cute white hostages in the cab and a boatload of heroin in the trunk, no one is safe from Galveston to Los Angeles.
Author : Barry Gifford
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,33 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802134547
This volume comprises six interlocking novels which chart the wild lives of star-crossed lovers Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune. The bizarre and varied characters of the stories inhabit a surreal world where paradoxes abound.
Author : Barry Gifford
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,58 MB
Release : 1992
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Rosie Perez
Publisher : Crown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 19,55 MB
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307952401
Oscar-nominated actress and star of the new musical drama Rise, Rosie Perez’s never-before-told story of surviving a harrowing childhood and of how she found success—both in and out of the Hollywood limelight. Rosie Perez first caught our attention with her fierce dance in the title sequence of Do the Right Thing and has since defined herself as a funny and talented actress who broke boundaries for Latinas in the film industry. What most people would be surprised to learn is that the woman with the big, effervescent personality has a secret straight out of a Dickens novel. At the age of three, Rosie’s life was turned upside down when her mentally ill mother tore her away from the only family she knew and placed her in a Catholic children’s home in New York’s Westchester County. Thus began her crazily discombobulated childhood of being shuttled between “the Home,” where she and other kids suffered all manners of cruelty from nuns, and various relatives’ apartments in Brooklyn. Many in her circumstances would have been defined by these harrowing experiences, but with the intense determination that became her trademark, Rosie overcame the odds and made an incredible life for herself. She brings her journey vividly to life on each page of this memoir—from the vibrant streets of Brooklyn to her turbulent years in the Catholic home, and finally to film and TV sets and the LA and New York City hip-hop scenes of the 1980s and ‘90s. More than a page-turning read, Handbook for an Unpredictable Life is a story of survival. By turns heartbreaking and funny, it is ultimately the inspirational story of a woman who has found a hard-won place of strength and peace.
Author : Barry Gifford
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 11,2 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Film criticism
ISBN : 9781617034497
Author : Barry Gifford
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 21,44 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802133694
The author of Wild at Heart and The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula writes of what Tennessee Williams called "something wild in the country/that only the night people know." He draws his characters from the shadows of the Deep South, where they confront the chaotic horror of the United States at the end of the twentieth century.
Author : Barry Gifford
Publisher :
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 17,92 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Film noir
ISBN : 9780802130785
Author : Barry Gifford
Publisher :
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 19,79 MB
Release : 1992-09-01
Category :
ISBN : 9782869305854
A la fin de Sailor et Lula, la mystérieuse et dangereuse Perdita Durango prenait la fuite en laissant son amant, Bobby Perou, mort devant le magasin d'aliments pour animaux qu'il venait de " braquer " en compagnie de Sailor. Nous la retrouvons à la Nouvelle-Orléans, où elle a fait la connaissance de Roméo Dolorosa, un pilleur de banques, originaire de l'île de Caribe et adepte de " Santeria ", une version latino du culte vaudou. Pour faire croire à ses pouvoirs surnaturels, Roméo, avec l'aide de Perdita, kidnappe un couple de jeunes américains à la frontière mexicaine, dans le but d'organiser un sacrifice humain. Parallèlement, Marcello " Zyeux fous " Santos le charge de convoyer un camion de placentas humains destinés à l'industrie cosmétique jusqu'à Los Angeles. La cavale de Roméo et Perdita, unis par le goût de la mort et du mal, fait écho, en beaucoup plus noir, à celle de Sailor et Lula.
Author : Thatcher Heldring
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 21,43 MB
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0375987142
For every athlete or sports fanatic who knows she's just as good as the guys. This is for fans of The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen, Grace, Gold, and Glory by Gabrielle Douglass and Breakaway: Beyond the Goal by Alex Morgan. The summer before Caleb and Tessa enter high school, friendship has blossomed into a relationship . . . and their playful sports days are coming to an end. Caleb is getting ready to try out for the football team, and Tessa is training for cross-country. But all their structured plans derail in the final flag game when they lose. Tessa doesn’t want to end her career as a loser. She really enjoys playing, and if she’s being honest, she likes it even more than running cross-country. So what if she decided to play football instead? What would happen between her and Caleb? Or between her two best friends, who are counting on her to try out for cross-country with them? And will her parents be upset that she’s decided to take her hobby to the next level? This summer Caleb and Tessa figure out just what it means to be a boyfriend, girlfriend, teammate, best friend, and someone worth cheering for. “A great next choice for readers who have enjoyed Catherine Gilbert Murdock’s Dairy Queen and Miranda Kenneally’s Catching Jordan.”—SLJ “Fast-paced football action, realistic family drama, and sweet romance…[will have] readers looking for girl-powered sports stories…find[ing] plenty to like.”—Booklist “Tessa's ferocious competitiveness is appealing.”—Kirkus Reviews “[The Football Girl] serve[s] to illuminate the appropriately complicated emotions both of a young romance and of pursuing a dream. Heldring writes with insight and restraint.”—The Horn Book
