Closing Time · A Memoir

Closing Time · A Memoir
Authors
Queenan, Joe
Publisher
Penguin Books
Tags
biography , humour , adult
ISBN
9781101032565
Date
2009-04-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.36 MB
Lang
en
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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.