Joe's word
Subtitle: an Echo Park novel
By: Elizabeth Stromme.
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Writing services -- Fiction; Inner cities -- Fiction; Immigrants -- Fiction; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Joe, a writer for hire who lives at the wrong end of Sunset Boulevard, finds himself becoming embroiled in the lives of his clients, linked to their dreams, their despair, and sometimes to their dirty secrets. This noir-style novel brings to life a community that survives amid political battles over air rights and pollution trading, LAPD abuse, and run-of-the-mill inner city murders."--BOOK JACKET.