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Jane Goes North

von Joe R. Lansdale

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"Jane has lost her job at the laundry due to a ketchup package she forgot to remove from an expensive item, and her prospects look dim. To top off matters, her younger sister, who lives up north, and who Jane has problems with, is getting married and has mailed her an invitation that Jane believes was sent due to her sister not expecting her to be able to come. A long bout of sibling rivalry makes Jane all the more determined to go, even if her car has gone to hell. To make the journey, Jane forms an uncomfortable alliance with a grumpy, one-eyed, weight-lifting lady named Henry, who may or may not abandon her along the way, and has plans to see a doctor Henry claims can renew her sight. Add past memories of a sexual dalliance with a drunk preacher in the back lot of the church across from her house, an infamous naked run along a creek bank, failed marriages, including an ex-husband that has a bit of goat ardor, and with a shoe full of money, Jane and Henry hit the road. They meet up with modern slavers, panty snatchers, disabled thieves with a sense of grandeur, a country singer named Cheryl who is on the downhill slide, and a quest for the world's greatest toaster that can toast four slices of bread all at once, or in sequence, and has a clock on it. It's one incredible quest consisting of rides in cow trailers, a stolen car, and a convertible, a pirate outfit for children, and what will become a unique friendship." --… (mehr)
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Jane AND Henry (Henrietta) go north, Jane for her sister’s wedding and Henry for an eye doctor appointment. And boy, oh, boy, do they have some adventures!

It kind of has the feel of a female Hap and Leonard book, and that is a compliment! Never has a trip from Texas to Boston been so bizarre! And I really, really liked the ending. A bit of sweet after all that sour! ( )
  Stahl-Ricco | Jun 2, 2024 |
Attention Walmart shoppers. Any similarities between the denizens encountered in this novella and yourselves is, I'm guessing fully on purpose.

Lansdale's done it again. He can create some of the most noble creatures found between the pages of any book. That he typically does this with a character that most middle class and virtually all upper class society would either never deign to look upon or, if their snooty virginal eyes did happen to catch sight of one, would immediately pretend they didn't exist and erase the memory of that image is simply icing on the cake.

Of course, he's also the master of finding the absolute dregs of society, and he's not afraid to poke them with a stick, just to see how they react.

This is a hilarious, and heartbreaking story, told only as Lansdale can tell it.

This one, like virtually all Lansdale works, is highly recommended. ( )
  TobinElliott | Sep 3, 2021 |
Boy, does Joe Lansdale write too much. This throwaway effort has a few moments of real heart and soul, but wastes most of its pages on a long story about meeting some morons at Sav-Mart, etc. etc. The last part of the book, where Jane actually meets a competent person who can help her get to her sister's wedding up North is given about 10% of the whole book despite having the most promise as a narrative. I agree with the other reviewer; the ending was rushed. In fact, more than rushed. I think it took Joe about as long to write this one as it takes to read it. Once it got long enough to publish, that was it. Put an end to it and start the next one! His multi-talented daughter Kasey does do a good job of reading the audiobook, however. ( )
  datrappert | Dec 31, 2020 |
Written great...duh..it's Joe R Lansdale. Story was ok, but not that interesting to me. Characters were well drawn, even the most outrageous ones. The ending felt rushed to me. ( )
  bjkelley | May 26, 2020 |
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"Jane has lost her job at the laundry due to a ketchup package she forgot to remove from an expensive item, and her prospects look dim. To top off matters, her younger sister, who lives up north, and who Jane has problems with, is getting married and has mailed her an invitation that Jane believes was sent due to her sister not expecting her to be able to come. A long bout of sibling rivalry makes Jane all the more determined to go, even if her car has gone to hell. To make the journey, Jane forms an uncomfortable alliance with a grumpy, one-eyed, weight-lifting lady named Henry, who may or may not abandon her along the way, and has plans to see a doctor Henry claims can renew her sight. Add past memories of a sexual dalliance with a drunk preacher in the back lot of the church across from her house, an infamous naked run along a creek bank, failed marriages, including an ex-husband that has a bit of goat ardor, and with a shoe full of money, Jane and Henry hit the road. They meet up with modern slavers, panty snatchers, disabled thieves with a sense of grandeur, a country singer named Cheryl who is on the downhill slide, and a quest for the world's greatest toaster that can toast four slices of bread all at once, or in sequence, and has a clock on it. It's one incredible quest consisting of rides in cow trailers, a stolen car, and a convertible, a pirate outfit for children, and what will become a unique friendship." --

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