Wild at Heart (novel)

Wild at Heart: The Story of Sailor and Lula is a 1990 pulp, "neo-noir" novel by Barry Gifford which was adapted by director David Lynch for the Wild At Heart in 1990. The movie won the Palme d'Or, the highest honor, at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990. The success of this 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:

• Sailor's Holiday
• 59° and Raining: The Story of Perdita Durango
• Sultans of Africa
• Consuelo's Kiss
• Bad Day for the Leopard Man
• Imagination of the Heart