Author: Anne Lamott
Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat
Unabridged: 8 hr 43 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 09/08/2003
Categories: Fiction
Anne Lamott is the author of the bestsellers Traveling Mercies, Operating Instructions, and Bird by Bird, as well as six novels, including Crooked Little Heart and Rosie. Her column in Salon magazine was voted Best of the Web by Newsweek. A past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Lamott lives in Northern California.
What a pleasure, and what a relief that the woman who gave me "instructions on writing and life" in Bird By Bird can practice what she preaches. I think in my mind I expected Lamott to be a second Elizabeth Berg, but she's actually not at all. An Elizabeth Berg book is a perfect snapshot of the huma......more
I had to change this from 3 to 4 stars; by the end of the book I was entranced. It starts slow with not much of a plot to move it along. I was hooked by the aura of being a fly on the wall in other lives so different from my own. I was a little put off by the deep CONNECTIONS between the characters......more
A pleasure to read because of the beautiful, vivid, complex characters, who offer a lot of wisdom for lost souls like me. Every time I opened it, I felt excited at the idea of spending more time with them - Lou is the Madonna of the Tidepool and Willie is the heartbroken angel. Only four stars inste......more
This book is probably my favorite Lamott novel. It went out of print and did not get great reviews, but I'm not sure why. I loved it.......more
"Joe Jones" is a novel or maybe more of a descriptive narrative that centers on Jessie’s Café. It is a rough and tumble down old place on the waterfront of San Francisco. Jessie inherited that café and at 79 lets Louise run the place while she sits at her favorite table at the window with her best f......more