Bibliograph

Sad stories of the death of kings, Barry Gifford

Type

Label

Sad stories of the death of kings, Barry Gifford

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Sad stories of the death of kings

Oclc number

601132906

Responsibility statement

Barry Gifford

Summary

Collects stories centering on a boy named Roy and the people he encounters growing up without a father in postwar Chicago

Table Of Contents

Age of fable - Great failure - Irredeemable - Sad stories of the death of kings - Sultan - Liberian condition - Six millian and one - War and peace - Chop suey joint - Significance - Einstein's son - Albanian florist - Weeper - Swedish bakery - Man who swallowed the world - Ghost ship - Caca negra - Roy's first car - Carterista - Crime and punishment - American language - Lonely are the brave - Force of evil - Choice - Bad girls - Sudden demis of Sharkface Bensky - Portrait of the artist with four other guys - Starving dogs of Little Croatia - In the land of the dead - Secret of the universe - Far from anywhere - Rain in the distance - Bad night at the Del Prado - Theory of the leisure class - Innamorata - Exception - Close encounters of the right kind - Blue people - Call of the wild - Arabian nights - Last plane out of Chungking - Coda: The vanished Gardens of Córdoba

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