Jubilee City - by Joe Andoe (Paperback)

About the Book

From an internationally exhibited painter whose work has been hailed as cowboy noir with a fashionista twist ("The New Yorker") comes a raw, vivid, and unique memoir, told in discrete snapshots that unfold into a remarkable story of despair, resilience, creativity, and hope.

From the Back Cover

A life story told in discrete, arresting snapshots of despair, resilience, creativity, and hope, Joe Andoe's literary portrait of his time to date on earth is as powerful as a heavyweight's hook and as spellbinding as a major crack-up on the opposite side of the highway. It is a testament to a young man's fortitude and genius and luck that enabled him to survive a life lived wildly out of control; a rocket ride from the sordid depths of self-destruction to the glorious pinnacles of . . . Jubilee City.

Review Quotes

"Charming . . . [Andoe's] wide-eyed sense of wonder and keen observations make the everyday strange and fresh." - Publishers Weekly
"Joe Andoe talks the way he paints in simple, direct phrases. He's no horseman. He's always preferred fast cars and motorcycles." - NPR's All Things Considered
"[A] coming of age centered on cars, fields and how much alcohol you could scavenge on a Saturday night merges into car crashes, construction jobs, unpredictable friends, college, painting, a heat-of-the-moment marriage proposal followed by a resigned acceptance, children, a move to New York, drugs, violence, money made and lost, fame and international recognition...[Andoe] deserves our attention and appreciation." - Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers
"[A] life straight out of Chuck Palahniuk's twisted imagination. - International Herald Tribune
"A raw, laconic kind of confession . . . filled with the kind of sentences that demand a reader's attention." - USA Today