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Nearing fifty, Joe Ransom won't slow down, not in his pickup, not with a gun-and certainly not with women. But all the fast living in Mississippi won't fill the hunger Joe can't name. At fifteen, Gary Jones is already slipping through the cracks. Part of a hopeless, homeless wandering family, he's desperate for a way out. He finds it in Joe. Together they follow a twisting map to redemption-or ruinAn understated, powerful, beautiful evocation of a place, a time, a people.From Publishers WeeklyWith this powerful novel of poverty-mired Mississippi, which received a boxed review in PW in cloth, Brown comes into his own, illuminating the painful lives of his characters with compassion and eloquence. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library JournalThe author of Dirty Work ( LJ 7/89) scores tough points with this disturbing look at the underside of rural life. Joe Ransom is 43, a hard-drinking, rough-edged ex-con who's used up most of the cards in his personal deck. Foreman of a Mississippi lumber company's "tree-poisoning" crew, he meets Gary Jones, age 15, seeking work. Gary's father is an itinerant farm worker, a man so thieving, murderous, and unwashed that Faulkne

Who reads Joe : a Novel?

Author

Larry Brown, Liliane Sztajn

Publisher

Warner

Published

1980

Language

EN

ISBN

9781565127586

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, American Fiction

Rating

4.2 / 5 (482 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14