Joe

Name: Joe
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Larry Brown
ISBN: 9781440799679

Author: Larry Brown

Narrator: Tom Stechschulte

Unabridged: 8 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/27/2008

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

An ALA Notable Book, Joe has earned critical acclaim nationwide, and Larry Brown has been compared to great Southern writers such as William Faulkner and Eudora Welty. In the Mississippi countryside, a friendship between a middle-aged, alcoholic contractor and an abused teen-aged boy becomes a bizarre rite of passage for both of them. The characters are riveting, and the conclusion is shocking in this latest work by a major talent.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Andy on June 11, 2022

This was headed for a five-star rating right up until the final page. Then the ending happened, which I hated. It loses a point for that.......more

Goodreads review by Lawyer on May 03, 2020

Joe: Down and Out in Mississippi I finished Joe last night. As always, Brown captured me through his staccato prose. The dialogue is a mirror of life among the have nots. Brown's sense of place is carved as sharply as his characters. The hard scrabble setting of north Mississippi is perfectly describ......more