Joe: A Novel

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Brilliant . . . Larry Brown has slapped his own fresh tattoo on the big right arm of Southern Lit. The Washington Post Book World Now a major motion picture starring Nicolas Cage directed by David Gordon Green. Joe Ransom is a hard-drinking ex-con pushing fifty who just wont 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 hes 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.