Everything you need to understand or teach Save Me, Joe Louis by Madison Smartt Bell.
Bell portrays alienated characters who find the modern world deficient in meaning and lacking in accepted values. His dominant theme is the alternative social order created by these misfits unable to adapt to the larger society. In Save Me, Joe Louis, customary social values have faded so far into the background that they have little direct effect upon Macrae, Charlie, or Porter.
Because Bell immerses the reader quickly and completely in the consciousness...