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The Book of Joe

By Jonathan Tropper

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| Paperback | 9780385338103

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Book Description

Right after high school, Joe Goffman left sleepy Bush Falls, Conneticut and never looked back. Then he wrote a novel savaging everything in town, a novel that became a national bestseller and a huge hit movie. Fifteen years later, Joe is struggling to avoid the sophomore slump with his next novel Continue

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The Book of Joe By Jonathan Tropper

In his moving, funny and compulsively readable second novel, The Book of Joe, Jonathan Tropper proves that while you can go home again, actually doing so can be colossally upsetting to all involved. Joe Goffman is a rich one-book novelist living in N ... (read full critics)

bookpage published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

1 Review

when the past catches up with you..

Tropper's novel has a great premise, young man writes a novel about an event in high school, where he trashes pretty much every resident of his town. Joe puts his past behind him and plans on never returning. The book becomes a huges success, the movie is made and then...reality hits. Joe's father s ... (continue)

Tropper's novel has a great premise, young man writes a novel about an event in high school, where he trashes pretty much every resident of his town. Joe puts his past behind him and plans on never returning. The book becomes a huges success, the movie is made and then...reality hits. Joe's father suffers a stroke and he has to go "home" after 15 years of absence. The town certainly hasn't forgotten Joe and Joe has to deal with his demons. A good read, slightly predictable in places but certainly makes you think about the influence of the past on the present and the choices we make. Moral: things aren't always a simple as they look.

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