{"product_id":"joe-jones-paperback","title":"Joe Jones - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnne Lamott\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\"--The Nation \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Lamott\u003c\/b\u003e is the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eOperating Instructions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBird by Bird\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTraveling Mercies\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBlue Shoe\u003c\/i\u003e, among many other works. She lives in Northern California with her son, Sam.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.86 x 8.16 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 05, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42730440949823,"sku":"9781593760038","price":20.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/4310f7e31a09be5b331aa18d081e705a.webp?v=1765125929","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/joe-jones-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}