false <![CDATA[Joe Jones: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172342608m/165934.jpg 165934 7 <i>Joe Jones</i> is Anne Lamott&#8217;s raucous novel of lives gathered around Jessie&#8217;s Cafe, &#8220;a restaurant from another era, the sort of broken-down waterfront dive one might expect to find in Steinbeck or Saroyan.&#8221; Jessie, &#8220;thin, stooped and gorgeous at seventy-nine,&#8221; inherited the cafe years before and it has become home to a remarkable family of characters: Louise, the cook and vortex, &#8220;sexy and sweet, somewhere on the cusp between curvaceous and fat&#8221;; Joe, devoted and unfaithful; Willie, Jessie&#8217;s gay grandson, (&#8220;I thought he just had good posture,&#8221; said Jessie); Georgia, an empress dowager who never speaks; and a dozen others all living together in the sweet everyday. Lamott&#8217;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. Out of print for fifteen years, <i>Joe Jones</i> is a novel of hilarity and joy 1157942 1985 Joe Jones: A Novel total:320|5:47|4:87|3:117|2:57|1:12| 320 1060 463 37 3 0 false false Sun Jun 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 13:24:27 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 10:57:51 -0700 2009
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I love Anne Lamott but this book is just okay. It has some of the features I enjoy in her books...spirituality, friendship... but that just kept me slogging through.]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Sep 18 21:38:14 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 18 21:39:10 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=165934