Joe Jones
A Novel
$26.91
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
5 August 2003
Summary
“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 NationJoe 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,” inherit…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781593760038 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1593760035 |
| Author: | Anne Lamott |
| Publisher: | Counterpoint |
| Imprint: | Counterpoint |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 5 August 2003 |
| Weight: | 363g |
| Dimensions: | 209mm x 139mm |
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“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
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.
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