Joe's Word: An Echo Park Novel

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Joe, a writer-for-hire in LA's inner city, finds his emotionally distanced world jeopardised by a client's special desires. His financial reliance on a sleazy character who needs pornographic letters to send mail-order brides soon complicates Joe's relationship with his girlfriend, the beautiful Clio. This noir-style novel vividly brings to life an embattled community of mostly have-nots who attempt to survive city corruption, police harassment, and the daily grind with humour and sheer grit.

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"As hilarious as The Big Lebowski by the Coen brothers...a small masterpiece of dry tenderness." - Bruno Juffin, Les Inrockuptibles