Barry Gifford's Perdita Durango: A Graphic Thriller (Neon Lit) - Softcover

Barry Gifford

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0380771098 ISBN 13: 9780380771097

Publisher: Avon Books, 1995

Synopsis

Adapted from a novella in Sailor's Holiday, this graphic novel introduces Perdita, a Tex-Mex femme fatale. It was one thing to turn an occasional trick to survive, but now Perdita's fallen in with a mysterious drug dealer, and they've kidnapped a gringo couple. As they head for Cajun Country, the group is soon lost in a landscape of sex, violence, and otherworldly mystery.

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Review:

Akin in its dark, dark humor to the films of Quentin Tarantino and David Lynch, and a worthy successor to the author's Wild at Heart, Barry Gifford's Perdita Durango, as illuminated by Scott Gillis, is the second volume in Bob Callahan and Art Spiegelman's award-winning new series, Neon Lit.

From Publishers Weekly:

A quirky, violent exercise in lowlife Tex-Mex noir, this second book-length comic to be released in Avon's Neon Lit series (series design by Art Spiegelman) is an adaptation of a novella from Gifford's Sailor's Holiday. Perdita is one tough half-breed prostitute, unsentimental and ruthless ("the only two real pleasures left on earth are fucking and killing"), wandering around the Southwest before finally teaming up with Romeo Dolorosa a quasi-mystic Jamaican drug dealer in New Orleans. This strangely engaging twosome is hired to drive a shipment of cocaine to L.A., and along the way they commit a ritualistic murder and take a young Anglo couple hostage?both at Perdita's coolly pernicious insistence. As this road trip snakes through a memorable array of truck stops, cheap nightclubs and trashy motels, Perdita and Romeo exchange vivid but morbid reflections on life with their fearfully attentive prisoners and they slowly become more like reluctant companions than captors and captives. Callahan's adaptation has recreated an irresistible atmosphere of petty crime, moral sleaze and arbitrarily exotic, debased cultural amalgamation, all of which is effectively captured by Gillis's dramatically composed, sensuously etched scratchboard drawings. The book concludes with an interview with Barry Gifford.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Avon Books
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0380771098
• ISBN 13: 9780380771097
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 123
• Illustrator: Scott Gillis