Jubilee City : A Memoir at Full Speed Book

"A life straight out of Chuck Palahniuk's twisted imagination....Not every painter of lonely landscapes and stark, haunting creatures has a readable story to tell. But Mr. Andoe makes this book a natural offshoot of his art, combining cool understatement with brass-tacks candor."—New York Times

A life story told in discrete, arresting snapshots of despair, resilence, creativity, and hope, Joe 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 a testiment to a young man's fortitude and genius and luck that enabled him to survive a life lived wildly out of control; a rocket ride from the sordid depths of self-destruction to the glorious pinnables of...Jubilee City.

"A raw, laconic kind of confession...filled with the kind of sentences that demand a reader's attention."—USA Today

"[Andoe] has a gift for ruthless analysis....Now that he's sobered up, he's able to survey the car wreck of his early life and turn it into a kind of art."—New York Times Book Review