About this title: "Joe Jones" is Lamott's raucous novel of lives gathered around Jessie's Cafe, "a restaurant from another era, the sort of broken-down waterfront dive one might expect to find in Steinbeck or Saroyan." Her 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.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: North Point Pr
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780865472099ISBN:0865472092
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"If you like a "slice of life," you'll love this story about average people with slightly heightened lives. If you need a story to come to a conclusion, or wrapped up somehow, this is not for you."
"Anne Lamott is a favorite of mine mostly because I feel deep in my soul her warped sense of humor. She writes from a San Francisco/Marin County point-of-view, which is uniquely skewed, screwed, and loving, and she does that better than anyone. This is a novel reminiscent of Alice Hoffman's "Sad Cafe", only happy. I had a smile on my face the whole way through.
"Really, she thinks to herself, you ought to be in love with someone you wouldn't mind being.' ..AND...
"She will go home and put on her pajamas and crawl into bed with a book, and will look up with a start from time to time. It is like when the bell has been ringing outside your window for years and suddenly stops, and you look around puzzled and wonder, What's that?" ....And this gem.......
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