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Highlights
- "If love is details, so is storytelling, and Anne Lamott excels at it.
- About the Author: Anne Lamott is the bestselling author of Operating Instructions, Bird by Bird, Traveling Mercies, and Blue Shoe, among many other works.
- 288 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
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About the Book
"Joe Jones" is 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." Her 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.Book Synopsis
"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 Café, "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 café 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.Review Quotes
"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."
About the Author
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.Dimensions (Overall): 8.16 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .86 Inches (D)
Weight: .8 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 288
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Literary
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Format: Paperback
Author: Anne Lamott
Language: English
Street Date: August 5, 2003
TCIN: 1003269505
UPC: 9781593760038
Item Number (DPCI): 247-07-9728
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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