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Highlights
- A life story told in discrete, arresting snapshots of despair, resilience, creativity, and hope, Joe Andoe's literary portrait of his time to date on earth is as powerful as a heavyweight's hook and as spellbinding as a major crack-up on the opposite side of the highway.
- Author(s): Joe Andoe
- 240 Pages
- Biography + Autobiography, Artists, Architects, Photographers
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About the Book
From an internationally exhibited painter whose work has been hailed as cowboy noir with a fashionista twist ("The New Yorker") comes a raw, vivid, and unique memoir, told in discrete snapshots that unfold into a remarkable story of despair, resilience, creativity, and hope.Book Synopsis
A life story told in discrete, arresting snapshots of despair, resilience, creativity, and hope, Joe Andoe's literary portrait of his time to date on earth is as powerful as a heavyweight's hook and as spellbinding as a major crack-up on the opposite side of the highway. It is a testament to a young man's fortitude and genius and luck that enabled him to survive a life lived wildly out of control; a rocket ride from the sordid depths of self-destruction to the glorious pinnacles of . . . Jubilee City.
Review Quotes
"Charming . . . [Andoe's] wide-eyed sense of wonder and keen observations make the everyday strange and fresh." -- Publishers Weekly
"A raw, laconic kind of confession . . . filled with the kind of sentences that demand a reader's attention." -- USA Today
"Joe Andoe talks the way he paints in simple, direct phrases. He's no horseman. He's always preferred fast cars and motorcycles." -- NPR's All Things Considered
"[A] life straight out of Chuck Palahniuk's twisted imagination. -- International Herald Tribune