I actually like Gifford quite a bit for exactly the same
reasons Greg
Swan seems to dislike him. I like Gifford's matter of
fact
storytelling, the aimless but fascinating
just-passing-the-time dialog
between characters and its leisurely pace, where nothing much
happens
until it does. That's why I thought the book was so superior
to Lynch's
movie. Lynch had to graft a whole superstructure onto it
(Diane Ladd,
Laura Dern's mother--in real life and in the movie--being
behind the big
conspiracy that initially put Sailor into jail) that not only
wasn't
needed, but betrayed the pace of the novel, which is actually
just a
road trip with a lot of stops and conversation along the
way.
If you like the book Wild at Heart, you will also like Sailor
and Lula,
which follows up with novellas on many of the characters,
including
Perdita Durango, whose story was adapted into a graphic novel
in that
series Art Speigelman was editing. Speaking of which, weren't
they
supposed to do an adaptation of Nightmare Alley? What ever
happened
with that?
Mark
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