Memories from a Sinking Ship Author:Barry Gifford Reminiscent of Mark Twain?s Huckleberry Finn and Ernest Hemingway?s Nick Adams stories, Memories from a Sinking Ship travels the landscape of a turbulent world seen through a boy?s steady gaze. Like Twain?s Mississippi River and Hemingway?s Big Two-Hearted, Gifford?s Chicago, New Orleans, and the highways and byways between off... more »er us mesmerizing lives lost in the kaleidoscope of postwar America, and in particular those of Roy?s adrift and disappointed mother and his hoodlum father.« less