Brown, Larry Joe ISBN 13: 9780340570722

Joe - Hardcover

9780340570722: Joe
View all copies of this ISBN edition:
 
 
The lives of two men--Joe Ransom, a drinking, gambling, reckless fifty-year-old, and Gary Jones, a luckless fifteen-year-old raised by an evil father and an insane mother, become intertwined in a novel of good, evil, temptation, and sacrifice

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

From the Back Cover:

“Brilliant . . . Larry Brown has slapped his own fresh tattoo on the big right arm of Southern Lit.” ―The Washington Post Book World

Joe Ransom is a hard-drinking ex-con pushing fifty who just won’t slow down--not in his pickup, not with a gun, and certainly not with women. Gary Jones estimates his own age to be about fifteen. Born luckless, he is the son of a hopeless, homeless wandering family, and he’s desperate for a way out. When their paths cross, Joe offers him a chance just as his own chances have dwindled to almost nothing. Together they follow a twisting map to redemption--or ruin.
 
“Literature of the first order . . . Powerful stuff spun by a sure, patient hand . . . His characters just are. They call to mind the Joads in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and the pictures and people in James Agee’s and Walker Evans’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. It is an understated, powerful, beautiful evocation of a place, a time, a people. It is a book that will last.” ―Detroit Free Press

“Luminescent prose tempered by wit.” ―The New York Times Book Review

“Sinewy and lyrical.” ―Los Angeles Times

“Brown compels our admiration, Joe himself makes us care.” ―Newsweek

About the Author:
Larry Brown was born in Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he lived all his life. At the age of thirty, a captain in the Oxford Fire Department, he decided to become a writer and worked toward that goal for seven years before publishing his first book, Facing the Music, a collection of stories, in 1988. With the publication of his first novel, Dirty Work, he quit the fire station in order to write fulltime. Between then and his untimely death in 2004, he published seven more books. His three grown children and his widow, Mary Annie Brown, live near Oxford.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

  • PublisherHodder & Stoughton
  • Publication date1992
  • ISBN 10 0340570725
  • ISBN 13 9780340570722
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages360
  • Rating
Buy Used
Condition: Very Good
May have limited writing in cover... Learn more about this copy

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.

Destination, rates & speeds

Add to Basket

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9781565124134: Joe

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  ISBN 13:  9781565124134
Publisher: Algonquin Books, 2003
Softcover

  • 9780945575610: Joe: A Novel

    Algonq..., 1991
    Hardcover

  • 9780446394383: Joe

    Grand ..., 1992
    Softcover

  • 9780340577387: Joe

    Sceptre, 1993
    Softcover

Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace

Stock Image

Brown, Larry
Published by Hodder & Stoughton (1992)
ISBN 10: 0340570725 ISBN 13: 9780340570722
Used Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
ThriftBooks-Dallas
(Dallas, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2. Seller Inventory # G0340570725I4N00

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy Used
US$ 18.98
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Brown, Larry
Published by Hodder & Stoughton (1992)
ISBN 10: 0340570725 ISBN 13: 9780340570722
Used Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
ThriftBooks-Dallas
(Dallas, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2. Seller Inventory # G0340570725I3N10

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy Used
US$ 18.98
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Brown, Larry
Published by Hodder & Stoughton (1992)
ISBN 10: 0340570725 ISBN 13: 9780340570722
Used Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
ThriftBooks-Atlanta
(AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2. Seller Inventory # G0340570725I3N00

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy Used
US$ 18.98
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Brown, Larry
Published by Hodder & Stoughton (1992)
ISBN 10: 0340570725 ISBN 13: 9780340570722
Used Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
ThriftBooks-Atlanta
(AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2. Seller Inventory # G0340570725I3N10

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy Used
US$ 18.98
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Brown, Larry
Published by Hodder & Stoughton (1992)
ISBN 10: 0340570725 ISBN 13: 9780340570722
Used Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
ThriftBooks-Dallas
(Dallas, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2. Seller Inventory # G0340570725I3N00

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy Used
US$ 18.98
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

BROWN
Published by Hodder & Stoughton (1992)
ISBN 10: 0340570725 ISBN 13: 9780340570722
Used Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Atlantic Books
(Mars Hill, NC, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: As New. London; Hodder & Stoughton; 1992; 1st British Edition; Hardcover; Fine in Fine dust jacket; First U.K. Edition. Fine in a Fine dust jacket.; Seller Inventory # 0306138

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy Used
US$ 15.00
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 4.00
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Brown, Larry
Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London (1992)
ISBN 10: 0340570725 ISBN 13: 9780340570722
Used Hardcover First Edition Quantity: 1
Seller:
Quercus Rare Books
(Chico, CA, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First UK Edition. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1992. Larry Brown (1951-2004) was one of the most interesting of the new generation of "Southern writers." He lived in Faulkner's home town, and his characters were definitely from the Snopes side of town. His early death is a true loss to literature. This is a Fine copy of the First English Edition, published a year after the American, in a Fine, unclipped dustwrapper. In an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Seller Inventory # 001119

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy Used
US$ 25.00
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 10.00
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Brown, Larry
Published by Hodder & Stoughton (1992)
ISBN 10: 0340570725 ISBN 13: 9780340570722
Used Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Pomfret Street Books
(Carlisle, PA, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Binding Tight Pages Clean Dust Signed By Author First U.K. Edition. Book. Seller Inventory # 088004

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy Used
US$ 42.00
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 4.50
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Seller Image

Brown, Larry
Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London (1992)
ISBN 10: 0340570725 ISBN 13: 9780340570722
Used Hardcover First Edition Signed Quantity: 1
Seller:
Shade of the Cottonwood
(Lawrence, KS, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Near fine first UK edition, signed by author on title page. Unread, free of owner's marks, and very tight binding. A few white speckles on base edge coverboards possibly from contact with dry painted shelf. Some dust accumulation top text block. Dust jacket fine with minimal shelfwear. In protective archival sleeve. signed by author or artist. Seller Inventory # 2143

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy Used
US$ 40.00
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 11.00
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Brown, Larry
Published by Hodder & Stoughton (1992)
ISBN 10: 0340570725 ISBN 13: 9780340570722
Used Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Glands of Destiny First Edition Books
(Sedro Woolley, WA, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. First British Edition. Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1992. FINE hardcover book in FINE dust-jacket. Pristine. As new. Unread. First British Edition, First Printing. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves. Seller Inventory # 2201190014

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy Used
US$ 50.00
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 5.00
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds

There are more copies of this book

View all search results for this book