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The boy who ran away to sea : stories /

Roy tells it the way he sees it, shuttled between Chicago to Key West and Tampa, Havana and Jackson Mississippi, usually with his mother Kitty, often in the company of lipsticked women and fast men. Roy is the muse of Gifford's hardboiled style, a precocious child, watching the grown-ups try ha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gifford, Barry, 1946- (Author, Illustrator)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Seven Stories Press, [2022].
Subjects:	Short stories, American. FICTION / General.

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