The success of the film boosted interest in Gifford's novels. The adaptation won the Palme d'Or, the highest honour at the Cannes Film Festival. The novel was adapted to the film Wild At Heart (1990) written and directed by David Lynch and starring Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern and Willem Dafoe. 59° and Raining: The Story of Perdita Durango.Sailor's Holiday: The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula.Wild at Heart begins the adventures of two sex-driven, star-crossed protagonists, Sailor and Lula, on the road in the American South. cuts to the heart with sharply focused shots of young lovers on the lam." Kirkus Reviews wrote that "Gifford's South is ersatz, tarred up with Forget-Me-Not Cafes and Dixie beer, his Romeo and Juliet more treacly than tragic." Series His assignment Tracking the mysterious Mr. Georges becomes Safer’s first spy recruit. Publishers Weekly wrote: "In the visual equivalent of sound bites, novelist and poet Gifford. LIAR & SPY When seventh grader Georges (the s is silent) moves into a Brooklyn apartment building, he meets Safer, a twelve-year-old coffee-drinking loner and self-appointed spy. Wild at Heart: The Story of Sailor and Lula is a 1990 novel by Barry Gifford. For the book by John Eldredge, see Wild at Heart (book).
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