Anne Lamott¿s raucous novel of lives gathered around Jessie¿s Café.
Joe Jones is Anne Lamott¿s raucous novel of lives gathered around Jessie¿s Café, ¿the sort of broken-down waterfront dive one might expect to find in Steinbeck.¿ 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, Joe, devoted and unfaithful; Willie, Jessies gay grandson; Georgia, an empress dowager who never speaks; and a dozen others all living together in the sweet everyday.
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Joe Jones is Anne Lamott¿s raucous novel of lives gathered around Jessie¿s Café, ¿the sort of broken-down waterfront dive one might expect to find in Steinbeck.¿ 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, Joe, devoted and unfaithful; Willie, Jessies gay grandson; Georgia, an empress dowager who never speaks; and a dozen others all living together in the sweet everyday.
Joe Jones: A novel
Anne Lamott¿s raucous novel of lives gathered around Jessie¿s Café.
Joe Jones is Anne Lamott¿s raucous novel of lives gathered around Jessie¿s Café, ¿the sort of broken-down waterfront dive one might expect to find in Steinbeck.¿ 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, Joe, devoted and unfaithful; Willie, Jessies gay grandson; Georgia, an empress dowager who never speaks; and a dozen others all living together in the sweet everyday.
Joe Jones is Anne Lamott¿s raucous novel of lives gathered around Jessie¿s Café, ¿the sort of broken-down waterfront dive one might expect to find in Steinbeck.¿ 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, Joe, devoted and unfaithful; Willie, Jessies gay grandson; Georgia, an empress dowager who never speaks; and a dozen others all living together in the sweet everyday.
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| BN ID: | 2940170070725 |
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| Publisher: | HighBridge Company |
| Publication date: | 09/08/2003 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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