Joe

Larry Brown. Warner Books, $18.99 (352pp) ISBN 978-0-446-39438-3

With this powerful novel of poverty-mired Mississippi, which received a boxed review in PW in cloth, Brown comes into his own, illuminating the painful lives of his characters with compassion and eloquence. (Oct.)

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