You · Season 2, Episode 3, "What Are Friends For?"
Joe's locker: Nostromo
Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) · Anavrin
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Joe keeps Conrad's Nostromo in his work locker. It is a 1904 novel about a silver mine whose treasure ruins everyone who touches it.
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Nostromo
Joseph Conrad · 1904 · novel
The title character is a man everyone calls incorruptible, right up until he isn't. Joe keeps a copy in his work locker.
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