'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's like looking into the Garden of Eden before things went bad.' - David Lynch

'A dark and comic ride through a fantasy America that rings desperately true.' - The New York Times Book Review

'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's most original writers.' - Playboy

On the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Barry Gifford's international bestseller Wild at Heart, as well as on the anniversary of the Cannes Palme d'Or-winning film adaptation by director David Lynch, Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels presents all seven of the novels and novellas that comprise the saga of Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune, 'the Romeo and Juliet of the South' : Wild at Heart, Perdita Durango (also made into a feature film), Sailor's Holiday, Sultans of Africa, Consuelo's Kiss, Bad Day for the Leopard Man, and The Imagination of the Heart.

The author of more than forty published works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that have been translated into twenty-eight languages, Barry Gifford 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.