The Up-Down

Download or read book The Up-Down written by Barry Gifford and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of violence, of love, and introspection, The Up-Down follows a man who leaves home and all that’s familiar, finds true love, loses it, and finds it again. Pace’s voyage is outward, among strangers, and inward into the fifth direction that is the up-down, in a sweeping, voracious human tale that takes no prisoners, witnesses extreme brutalities and expresses a childlike amazement. Here the route goes from New Orleans, to Chicago to Wyoming to Bay St. Clement, North Carolina, but the geography he is charting is always first and foremost unchartable.