{"product_id":"joe-9781565124134","title":"Joe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Brilliant . . . Larry Brown has slapped his own fresh tattoo on the big right arm of Southern Lit.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow a major motion picture starring Nicolas Cage, directed by David Gordon Green. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJoe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrown, Larry:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eLarry Brown\u003c\/b\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eFacing the Music\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of stories, in 1988. With the publication of his first novel, \u003ci\u003eDirty Work\u003c\/i\u003e, he quit the fire station in order to write full time. (The nonfiction book \u003ci\u003eOn Fire\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of his many years as a firefighter.) Between then and his untimely death in 2004, he published seven more books. He was awarded the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award for fiction and was the first two-time winner of the Southern Book Award for Fiction, which he won in 1992 for \u003ci\u003eJoe, \u003c\/i\u003eand again in 1997 for \u003ci\u003eFather and Son\u003c\/i\u003e. He was the recipient of a Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Award and Mississippi's Governor's Award For Excellence in the Arts. The story \"Big Bad Love\" became the basis for a feature film, as did his novel \u003ci\u003eJoe\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Algonquin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50725482725650,"sku":"9781565124134","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_572490ee-3eda-4f1d-900f-b0b577f1e8e1.jpg?v=1734830976","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/joe-9781565124134","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}