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Joe de Larry Brown

Joe

Autor Larry Brown
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2003

Brilliant . . . Larry Brown has slapped his own fresh tattoo on the big right arm of Southern Lit. "The Washington Post Book World"

Now a major motion picture starring Nicolas Cage, directed by David Gordon Green. Joe Ransom is a hard-drinking ex-con pushing fifty who just won t slow down--not in his pickup, not with a gun, and certainly not with women. Gary Jones estimates his own age to be about fifteen. Born luckless, he is the son of a hopeless, homeless wandering family, and he s desperate for a way out. When their paths cross, Joe offers him a chance just as his own chances have dwindled to almost nothing. Together they follow a twisting map to redemption--or ruin."

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781565124134
ISBN-10: 1565124138
Pagini: 345
Dimensiuni: 135 x 204 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:Reprint
Editura: ALGONQUIN BOOKS OF CHAPEL HILL

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"Brilliant . . . Larry Brown has slapped his own fresh tattoo on the big right arm of Southern Lit." --The Washington Post Book World

Joe Ransom is a hard-drinking ex-con pushing fifty who just won't slow down--not in his pickup, not with a gun, and certainly not with women. Gary Jones estimates his own age to be about fifteen. Born luckless, he is the son of a hopeless, homeless wandering family, and he's desperate for a way out. When their paths cross, Joe offers him a chance just as his own chances have dwindled to almost nothing. Together they follow a twisting map to redemption--or ruin.

"Literature of the first order . . . Powerful stuff spun by a sure, patient hand . . . His characters just are. They call to mind the Joads in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and the pictures and people in James Agee's and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. It is an understated, powerful, beautiful evocation of a place, a time, a people. It is a book that will last." --Detroit Free Press

"Luminescent prose tempered by wit." --The New York Times Book Review

"Sinewy and lyrical." --Los Angeles Times

"Brown compels our admiration, Joe himself makes us care." --Newsweek

Descriere

Set in the Mississippi backroads, this unflinchingly realistic novel focuses on the relationship between Gary Jones, the 15-year-old son of dissolute itinerant laborers and Joe Ransom, a hard-drinking ex-con who becomes his unlikely savior.

Notă biografică

Larry Brown is a retired business executive living near Lake Keowee, Seneca, South Carolina. After a successful business career, he began to pursue writing. This will be his third novel. His goal is to continue writing.