{"product_id":"the-exception-uncle-bucks-book-of-irrepressible-navigation-paperback","title":"The Exception: Uncle Buck's Book of Irrepressible Navigation - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBarry Gifford\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning author and screenwriter comes a collection that brings together all of Barry Gifford's Uncle Buck stories, many written in 2024 and 2025 with others dating back to the early 2000s. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Gifford . . . can sum up in a few words the cruelty, horror, and crushing banality that shape an entire life.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Anthony Bourdain, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese stories feature hard lessons in adulthood marred by betrayals, murders and madness, while also evoking the innocence of the boy and, hauntingly, the world-weary innocence, too, of Uncle Buck. The novelist Jim Harrison believed Uncle Buck to be one of Gifford's most enduring creations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Just as readers were introduced to the immortal characters of Sailor and Lula in Gifford's \u003ci\u003eWild at Heart\u003c\/i\u003e in 1990--brought to cinematic life that same year by Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern in David Lynch's Palme d'Or-winning film--Uncle Buck and Roy come to life in \u003ci\u003eThe Exception\u003c\/i\u003e as indelible American characters, restoring a sense of family out of the broken pieces left behind after death and divorce. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Set in the '50s and early '60s in Tampa, Florida; Chicago; Cocoa Beach, Florida; Havana, Cuba; Cuernavaca and Acapulco, Mexico; Parris Island, South Carolina; Belfast, Ireland; and returning in the end to Tampa when Uncle Buck is approaching death at the age of 93, these stories are epic in scope, and at the same time disarmingly intimate. We feel the breath of these everyday warriors on our faces in every story. In this world, cars are Eldorados and Cadillac Coupe DeVilles, men smoke cigars, own construction businesses and nightclubs, fish for marlin, women smoke Chesterfields, and children look on in awe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Gifford's world is alive and eternal, returning us to this time and these places that exist no longer, except here.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBARRY GIFFORD \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of more than forty published works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, which have been translated into twenty-eight languages. Gifford began his career as a poet and musician. His most recent prose works are \u003ci\u003eThe Roy Stories, Landscape With Traveler: The Pillow Book of Francis Reeves\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eJack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac\u003c\/i\u003e. His most recent poetry collection is \u003ci\u003eImagining Paradise: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (2012). Gifford lives in the San Francisco area.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.1 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 12, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53377120665907,"sku":"9781644215500","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/635lPZdZ3Q9781644215500.webp?v=1779314926","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-exception-uncle-bucks-book-of-irrepressible-navigation-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}