Save me, Joe Louis
by Madison Smartt Bell
Macrae is living pretty close to the edge in the inhospitable rush of Manhattan. He and Charlie make their bread, such as it is, by a fairly clever scheme of forcing their vitims to withdraw money from bank cash machines. It's not very lucrative, but it's not very risky either. They become involved in darker matters, and Macrae indulges in an incomparably brutal act of vengeance, which is not really his style. Charlie is the one with sychotic tendencies. The pair moves on to Baltimore, where they hook up with a black ex-con called Porter, from whom Macrae begins to learn "the perils of living...an unexamined life." With crime as their livelihood, the three move on to the rural South. It is here that Macrae will rediscover Lacy, an old flame, who will perhaps help him find his balance in his topsy-turvy world of perpetual distemper.
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Save me, Joe Louis
September 13, 1996, Actes Sud
Mass Market Paperback
in French
2742709053 9782742709052
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Save Me, Joe Louis: A Novel (Contemporary American Fiction)
August 1, 1994, Penguin (Non-Classics)
in English
0140236333 9780140236330
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