Closing Time
A Memoir
Nonfiction, Family & Relationships, Family Relationships, Biography & Memoir, Literary
| Author: | Joe Queenan | ISBN: | 9781101032565 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group | Publication: | April 16, 2009 |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Joe Queenan |
| ISBN: | 9781101032565 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| Publication: | April 16, 2009 |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books |
| Language: | English |
An affecting memoir from one of America's most provocative humorists
Over the past two decades, Joe Queenan has established himself as a scourge of everything that is half-baked, half-witted, and halfhearted in American culture. In Closing Time, Queenan turns his sights on a more serious and a more personal topic: his childhood in a Philadelphia housing project in the early 1960s. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Closing Time recounts Queenan's Irish Catholic upbringing in a family dominated by his erratic, alcoholic father, and his long flight away from the dismal confines of his neighborhood into the greater, wide world. A story about salvation and escape, Closing Time has at its heart the makings of a classic American autobiography.
An affecting memoir from one of America's most provocative humorists
Over the past two decades, Joe Queenan has established himself as a scourge of everything that is half-baked, half-witted, and halfhearted in American culture. In Closing Time, Queenan turns his sights on a more serious and a more personal topic: his childhood in a Philadelphia housing project in the early 1960s. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Closing Time recounts Queenan's Irish Catholic upbringing in a family dominated by his erratic, alcoholic father, and his long flight away from the dismal confines of his neighborhood into the greater, wide world. A story about salvation and escape, Closing Time has at its heart the makings of a classic American autobiography.
