Save Me, Joe Louis

by Madison Smartt Bell

Book Overview

Two small-time thieves get in over their heads in this literary thriller from the "virtuoso novelist" and author of Soldier's Joy (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Not quite at home in the backwoods of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0151794324
• ISBN13: 9780151794324
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
• Length: 351 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Absorbing and moody--a really good read.

In Save Me, Joe Louis, Madison Smartt Bell has a way with putting his reader right in the middle of things. Whether the protagonist Macrae is sitting in seedy NYC bar or on a creaky porch down South, he gives you such wonderful, rich detail that you never for a moment doubt what's going on and, truly, can see it all as if you were there, too. It is emotional without being too sentimental (or sappy). It doesn't have a neat and tidy ending, yet you close the book feeling satisfied. I highly recommend this--I was impressed. I plan to read more of his work ASAP.

Stunning...as finely tuned as you'll ever read.

This is the saga of Charlie and Macrae, two fringe dwellers thrown together by chance. As their story unfolds, their forays into petty crime escalate into horrific violence and madness. Bell is one of the best writers around. Pick up "Save Me, Joe Louis" and get hooked