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Joe Jones
Anne Lamott, Paperback$11.90
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“If love is details, so is storytelling, and Anne Lamott excels at it. Her way with analogy, metaphor, and evocative detail is subtle; her ability to shift from the specific to the general to the specific again, superb.”–The Nation
Joe Jones is Anne Lamott’s raucous novel of lives gathered around Jessie’s Caf , “a restaurant from another era, the sort of broken-down waterfront dive one might expect to find in Steinbeck or Saroyan.” Jessie, “thin, stooped and gorgeous at seventy-nine,” inherited the caf years before and it has become home to a remarkable family of characters: Louise, the cook and vortex, “sexy and sweet, somewhere on the cusp between curvaceous and fat”; Joe, devoted and unfaithful; Willie, Jessie’s gay grandson, (“I thought he just had good posture,” said Jessie); Georgia, an empress dowager who never speaks; and a dozen others all living together in the sweet everyday. Lamott’s rich and timeless themes are also here: love and loyalty, loss and recovery, staying on and staying together, the power of humor to heal and to bind.Description
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Anne Lamott
Published: 08/05/2003
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
ISBN: 9781593760038
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.16h x 5.50w x 0.86d
Additional information
Weight | 0.8 lbs |
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Dimensions | 8.16 × 5.5 × 0.86 in |
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