Wild at Heart (novel)


Wild at Heart: The Story of Sailor and Lula is a 1990 pulp, "neo-noir" novel by Barry Gifford. Gifford is an American author, poet, and screenwriter.
The novel was adapted to the film Wild At Heart written and directed by David Lynch and starring Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern and Willem Dafoe. In its release year, the film adaptation won the Palme d'Or, the highest honour at the Cannes Film Festival. The success of the film boosted interest in Gifford's novels.
The first book of the series, Wild at Heart, begins the adventures in the American South of two sex-driven, star-crossed protagonists on the road, Sailor and Lula.
It is followed by: