1 edition of Magnificent Joe found in the catalog.
Magnificent Joe
James Wheatley
Published
2013
by Oneworld Publications in London, England
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Written in English
After being released from prison, Jim returns home and finds a friend in the other outsider, Joe, but their friendship is tested when Joe is accused of a crime.
Edition Notes
| Statement | James Wheatley |
| The Physical Object | |
|---|---|
| Pagination | 280 p. |
| Number of Pages | 280 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL27147493M |
| ISBN 10 | 1851689664 |
| ISBN 10 | 9781851689668 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 810121424 |
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Magnificent Joe [James Wheatley] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Recently released from Magnificent Joe book, Jim is welcomed back by his childhood mates to the northern working-class town where he grew up.
With no alternative/5(4). Magnificent Joe may be the title of this book, and he' It is a brave and ambitious publisher that markets a debut novel as; "Of Mice and Men meets Trainspotting" - that really is an expectation to have to live up too/5(29).
James Wheatley was born in the North of England and has worked as a roofer, a labourer, a financial and business risk analyst, and a market researcher. He currently lives in Yorkshire, England, where he divides his time between writing and playing guitar. Magnificent Joe is his first novel.
James Wheatley is a research consultant, musician, and writer.4/4(3). Magnificent Joe. [James Wheatley] -- After being released from prison, Jim returns home and finds a friend in the other outsider, Joe, but their friendship is tested when Joe is accused of a crime.
Your Web browser is not enabled for JavaScript. Some features of WorldCat will not be available. * Publishers Weekly * 'Joe's the only magnificent one in this novel about working-class life - a grim and gritty novel, with a slight ray of hope at the end.' * Kirkus Reviews * 'A brutal, sometimes moving book written with a spare, unsentimental swagger and plenty of confrontational coal-black humour.'.
Fiction Book Review: Magnificent Joe by James Wheatley. Oneworld (PGW, dist.), $ trade paper (p) ISBN This fine first book, half bildungsroman and half state of England.
Magnificent Joe is a brutal little novel that manages also to be tender and funny. It might not really be the Of Mice and Men of our generation. But this ballsy debut shows great : Katy Guest. Magnificent Joe is the book that renewed my long-standing love affair with literature.
(Yes, I said literature, not novels, and I meant it.) Wheatley offers his readers the perfect blend of class and crass. I was reminded of Palahniuk and Hawthorne, Bukowski and Stoker all at once/5. A wonderful and utterly gripping coming-of-age story and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick, Magnificent Joe is a funny and touching tale of the lengths we go to when everything we have is at stake.
A wonderful and utterly gripping coming-of-age story and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick, Magnificent Joe is a funny and touching tale of the lengths we go to when everything we have is at stake.
Read more Read less click to open popover Special offers and product promotionsReviews: Joe’s the only magnificent one in this novel about working-class life in northern England, for his simple-mindedness protects him from the despair and hopelessness of his friends.
Jim is the main character and occasional narrator of the story, which moves fromwhen he accidentally kills a man, to Author: James Wheatley. The Magnificent Sons is Myers’ second book and is a very similar beast to his first, but is noticeably more confident; Jake, the protagonist is perhaps too much of an Everyman, the glimpses we get from the perspectives of the supporting characters really elevate the story and are arguably some of the high points- it makes it easier to see why /5(35).
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'A great debut - If this book is anything to go by [Wheatley] will have a bright future.' * A Fiction Habit * 'Wheatley paints an interesting portrait of a stable situation disintegrating despite the best attempts to hold it together.
Magnificent Joe is its author's first novel, and leaves me wondering where he might go next.' * Follow the Thread *. Joe the Magnificent Joe the Magnificent is Joe's maternal uncle who is a magician, but not so great.
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