Joe Meno, Author . ReganBooks $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-039433-2
Luce Lemay returns to his hometown in Illinois after serving time for accidentally running down a young mother's infant daughter, but hope turns to tragedy in Meno's (Tender as Hellfire) moving second novel. Lemay is a poetic ex-con who...
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Joe Meno, Author . Akashic/Punk Planet $13.95 (290p) ISBN 978-1-888451-70-2
Meno (How the Hula Girl Sings
) gives his proverbial coming-of-age tale a punk-rock edge, as 17-year-old Chicagoan Brian Oswald tries to land his first girlfriend and make it through high school. Brian loves video games, metal music and his best...
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Joe Meno, Author . Northwestern Univ. $21.95 (180p) ISBN 978-0-8101-5167-3
In Meno's offbeat universe, a horse predicts the future by crying into a bucket, and the Astronaut of the Year gets memorialized on ceramic garlic holders. The author (most recently of Hairstyles of the Damned
) narrates his tales of awkward...
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Joe Meno, Author . Punk Planet & Akashic $14.95 (328p) ISBN 978-1-933354-10-1
Playing such mysteries as "The Case of the Brown Bunny" against the mysteries of mortality and mankind's capacity for evil, the latest from Meno (Bluebirds Used to Croon in the Choir
) presents former child sleuth Billy Argo at 30,...
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Joe Meno, Author . Akashic $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-933354-47-7
Spanning worlds, generations, cultures and environments, each of Meno's short stories in this stellar collection explores depression, loneliness and insanity in the world, while never quite offering a clear solution or glimmer of hope. Misery...
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Joe Meno, Author . Norton $24.95 (414p) ISBN 978-0-393-06796-5
Meno (Hairstyles of the Damned
) continues to employ his keen observations of human nature, this time exploring the tumultuous landscapes of a contemporary Chicago family. The narrative rotates between members of the Casper family, giving each time...
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Joe Meno, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-312-20051-0
A trailer park in the Plains town of Tenderloin is the setting of this crusty coming-of-age debut, which features some of the liveliest characters just this side of believable that one is apt to meet in a contemporary novel. The first-person...
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Joe Meno. Akashic, $29.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-61775-393-0
The latest by Meno (Office Girl) is a compelling mash-up of magic and the absurd with the grittiness of a world inhabited by punks, thieves, and losers, as a grandfather and his grandson take a road trip through 1990s rural America in search of...
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Joe Meno. Akashic, $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-61775-075-5
In Joe Meno’s new novel, set in the last year of the 20th century, art school dropout Odile Neff and amateur sound artist Jack Blevins work deadening office jobs; gush about indie rock, French film, and obscure comic book artists; and gradually...
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Joe Meno. Counterpoint, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-1-64009-314-0
Novelist Meno (Marvel and a Wonder) delivers a suspenseful account of two Ghanaian refugees’ quest for political asylum. Flashbacks reveal 24-year-old Seidu Mohammed and 32-year-old Razak Iyal’s reasons for fleeing Ghana (Mohammed’s illicit...
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Joe Meno. Akashic, $17.95 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-63614-061-2
Meno (Between Everything and Nothing) follows two classical music prodigies whose dreams are thwarted in his sincere latest. Aleks, a pianist whose full name is Wolfgang Amadeus Aleksandar Fa, and his older, cellist sister, Isobel, named after...
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