{"product_id":"joe-jones-1","title":"Joe Jones","description":"\u003ch1\u003eJoe Jones\u003c\/h1\u003eAnne Lamott\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Counterpoint LLC\u003cbr\u003eAugust 5 2003\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9781593760038\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 1593760035\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eItems marked as \u003cb\u003eWAREHOUSE\u003c\/b\u003e may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \u003cb\u003e\"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.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJoe 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67390763761709,"sku":"WHS-da5e6a9c89014b0a9983fd06c17850bc","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_77e09d09-613d-499f-bd63-d06cd600a1e9.jpg?v=1787346866","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/joe-jones-1","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}