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
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.