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A writer-for-hire in LA’s inner city finds his emotionally distanced world jeopardized by a client’s special desires In Echo Park, a neighborhood at the wrong end of Sunset Boulevard, Joe, a loner, lives marginally. Ironically, he finds himself becoming more involved than he’d planned in the lives of his clients, linked to their dreams and to their despair, and in some cases to their dirty secrets. Into this compromised world come two women who further complicate his life: Clio, a graphic artist whose passion is sketching flowers, and Corazon, who suddenly arrives from the Philippines in response to a letter from his biggest client. This noir-style novel vividly brings to life an embattled community of mostly have-nots who attempt to thrive amid political battles over air rights and pollution trading, LAPD abuse, and assorted run-of-the-mill inner city murders. Joe’s Word could be considered the final edition of Robert Towne/Jack Nicholson’s epic sweep of L.A. history: "Chinatown’s" grab for water, "Two Jakes’s" grab for land, and now, in Joe’s Word, L.A.’s air going to the highest bidder. "Good things always seem to come in the small, neat editions packaged in the City Lights Noir series. Joe's Word gets my nod for the wry wit of its author, Elizabeth Stromme, and for the amused affection she has for an unglamorous neighborhood at the losing end of Sunset Boulevard." – The New York Times
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