{"product_id":"big-joe-9781965874189","title":"Big Joe","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn uproarious and scandalous Southern picaresque by the master Samuel R. Delany.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA chance encounter with two older fellows at the movie theater has the young vagabond Ligie on his way to Lot-8, a trailer park down the road with an unconventional local reputation. There, Ligie meets Big Joe and his extended Lot-8-family: a loose-knit community of freaks all sectioned together by the landlord at the outskirts of town. Weaving together colorful characters and outright carnal debauchery, \u003ci\u003eBig Joe\u003c\/i\u003e is a radical pastoral of community, desire, and the strangeness of knowing one another.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSamuel R. Delany is the author of numerous books and novels, including the Nebula Award-winning \u003ci\u003eBabel-17\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Einstein Intersection\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as \u003ci\u003eNova\u003c\/i\u003e (now in a Library of America anthology) and \u003ci\u003eDhalgren\u003c\/i\u003e. His 2007 novel \u003ci\u003eDark Reflections\u003c\/i\u003e won the Stonewall Book Award. Other erotic novels include \u003ci\u003eEquinox\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHogg\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Mad Man\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThrough the Valley of the Nest of Spiders\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eShoat Rumblin\u003c\/i\u003e. Delany was the subject of a 2007 documentary, \u003ci\u003eThe Polymath\u003c\/i\u003e, by Fred Barney Taylor, and he has written a popular creative writing textbook, \u003ci\u003eAbout Writing\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of the widely taught \u003ci\u003eTimes Square Red\/Times Square Blue \u003c\/i\u003eand numerous books of essays; his book-length autobiographical essay, \u003ci\u003eThe Motion of Light in Water\u003c\/i\u003e, won a Hugo Award in 1989. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrake Carr is an American artist primarily known for his paintings and drawings of art and fashion luminaries and large-scale, cut-out works. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSabrina Bockler is an American artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Inpatient Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51260190818578,"sku":"9781965874189","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a02200a1-791e-4f13-adec-a3557abbcfe7.jpg?v=1746639082","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/big-joe-9781965874189","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}