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Title: All Joe Knight
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Kevin Morris
Narrator: Jay Snyder
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-09-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
A prominent figure in the entertainment world who has turned to fiction in the last decade, Kevin Morris received wide literary acclaim with his story collection White Man's Problems, praised by David Carr as "remarkable" and Tom Perrotta as "revelatory". Now Morris cements his place as a bold new voice in American literature with his muscular debut novel, All Joe Knight.
The year is 1961. Outside Philadelphia, a soon-to-be father runs into a telephone pole while driving drunk; nine months later his widow dies in a smashed up T-Bird. From the start the orphaned Joe Knight is a blank slate. Taken in by a kindly aunt in a tough-skinned suburb, Joe finds his family in high school with the Fallcrest basketball team - the kind of team that comes around once in a lifetime. White guys, black guys, speed, height, raw athleticism, every element is perfectly in sync. All these kids want, all they dream of, is to make it to the Palestra, UPenn's cathedral of college basketball.
Fast-forward 30 years. Joe is newly divorced, with one kid, and certain he is unfit for love. Ever since selling the ad firm he built from the ground up for millions, he's had time on his hands, and now he wiles it away in strip clubs, the only place where he can quiet his mind. But then he hears from Chris Scully, a former Fallcrest teammate who is now district attorney. It seems the Justice Department is sniffing around the deal that got Joe rich years ago - a deal he cut every member of the basketball team into, except for Scully. As the details about Joe's possible transgression are unreeled, he is forced to face the emptiness inside himself and a secret that has haunted him for decades.
Members Reviews:
Sometimes a Great Notion, Tropic of Cancer
I have to restrain myself from references to Dispatches, Huckleberry Finn, A Fanâs Notes, Manchild in the Promised Land, Sometimes a Great Notion, Tropic of Cancer... The astonishing voice splayed me all over the literary map of my favorite books. And the book is about much more than voice: Morris is natural storyteller. And, finally, the line-by-line humanness is the absolute killer heart of this brilliant first novel.
Nails the middle aged white dude experience
Finished Kevin Morris's new novel "All Joe Knight" yesterday and couldn't recommend it more highly. As with his short story collection, Morris nails middle aged white dude experience. With Chabon-like style, he narrates a compelling tale of loss, of friendship, of money, of ennui, of Philadelphia, and of high school basketball.
Good story, well developed characters
This man can write. Good story, well developed characters. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Buy It!
Great read!
All Joe Knight is a great follow up to Kevin's other book
Enjoyed this novel by a new writer Kevin Morris
His first collection of short stores was very successful. I feel the same about this novel