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A Memoir at Full Speed
William Morrow
August 2007
On Sale: July 24, 2007
Featuring: Joe Andoe
224 pages
ISBN: 0061240311
EAN: 9780061240317
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Joe Andoe is an internationally exhibited painter. His work,
hailed by The New Yorker as "cowboy noir with a
fashionista twist," is in the collections of the Museum of
Fine Arts in Boston, the Whitney Museum of Art in New York,
and countless other locations. He is a father. He is a
writer. He is sober. That's now. Once upon a time,
though, way back in the '70s, Joe Andoe was a delinquent bad
boy growing up wild in Tulsa, Oklahoma—drinking, drugging,
and driving too fast down a dead-end road. He was one car
crash, one overdose away from head-on disaster. His art
saved him. A life story told in discrete, arresting
snapshots of despair, resilience, creativity, and hope, Joe
Andoe's raw, vivid, and utterly original memoir is as
striking as his painting. With echoes of Jim Carroll poetic
insight and Charles Bukowski grit, yet still uniquely the
artist's own, Andoe's literary portrait of his time to date
on earth is as powerful as a heavyweight's hook and as
spellbinding as a major crack-up on the opposite side of the
highway. It is an important work of curiosity and
grandiosity; a testament to a young man's resilience and
genius and luck that enabled him to survive a life lived
wildly out of control; an unparalleled adventure, a rocket
ride from the sordid depths of self-destruction to the
glorious pinnacles of . . . Jubilee City
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