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Joe Jones

A Novel

Anne Lamott

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Counterpoint
05 August 2003
""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 Cafe, ""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 cafe 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.
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Imprint:   Counterpoint
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 209mm,  Width: 139mm,  Spine: 22mm
Weight:   369g
ISBN:   9781593760038
ISBN 10:   1593760035
Pages:   256
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Anne Lamott is the bestselling author of Operating Instructions, Bird by Bird, Traveling Mercies, and Blue Shoe, among many other works. She lives in Northern California with her son, Sam.

Reviews for Joe Jones: A Novel

""Anne Lamott is a cause for celebrations. [Her] real genius lies in capturing the ineffable, describing not perfect moments, but imperfect ones ...perfectly. She is nothing short of miraculous.""


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