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The book of Joe

After writing a novel that lampooned nearly everyone in his hometown, a young writer is forced to return to that same town to care for his father and discovers that people have not forgotten the indignities he heaped upon them.

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  • "After writing a novel that lampooned nearly everyone in his hometown, a young writer is forced to return to that same town to care for his father and discovers that people have not forgotten the indignities he heaped upon them."@en
  • "Joe Goffman was fifteen years out from his sleepy home town when he wrote Bush Falls, a searing critique of its people and institutions. The book was a runaway bestseller, and led to an even more successful movie. Now, however, Joe's got a problem. His father has suffered a stroke, and that means that Joe has to go back to his birthplace after having successfully antagonized every person living there. Can Joe survive the reservoirs of hatred that have been waiting to pour down upon him? Just maybe."@en
  • "Joe Goffman was fifteen years out from his sleepy home town when he wrote Bush Falls, a searing critique of its people and institutions. The book was a runaway bestseller, and led to an even more successful movie. Now, however, Joe's got a problem. His father has suffered a stroke, and that means that Joe has to go back to his birthplace after having successfully antagonized every person living there. Can Joe survive the reservoirs of hatred that have been waiting to pour down upon him? Just maybe."
  • "In terms of style, wit, and irony, there is no comparison between Peyton Place and Joe Goffman's Bush Falls. But both books stripped away the facade of small-town propriety to reveal the private, indecorous, and unseemly doings underneath. Joe Goffman was fifteen years out from his sleepy home town when he wrote Bush Falls, a searing critique of its people and institutions. The book was a runaway bestseller, and led to an even more successful movie. Now, however, Joe's got a problem. His father has suffered a stroke, and that means that Joe has to go back to his birthplace after having successfully antagonized every person living there. Can Joe survive the reservoirs of hatred that have been waiting to pour down upon him? Just maybe."@en

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Compact discs"@en
  • "Downloadable audio books"@en

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  • "The Book of Joe"
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