Closing Time
A Memoir
New York : Viking, 2009.
Format: Book
Description: 338 pages ; 25 cm
Queenan's deeply funny and affecting memoir about his great escape from a childhood of poverty in a Philadelphia housing project in the early 1960s.
Contents:
The man on the roof -- Sin City -- The predicament -- Domine, non sum dignus -- Semper fidelis -- The parting of the Reed Sea -- Twilight of the apothecaries -- C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre -- Second fiddle -- Management potential -- Walkabout -- Closing time -- Epilogue.
Subjects:
Queenan, Joe.
Queenan, Joe -- Childhood and youth.
Queenan, Joe -- Family.
Working class -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography.
Fathers and sons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Family violence -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Forgiveness -- Case studies.
Social mobility -- United States -- Case studies.
Authors, American -- Biography.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Biography.
Queenan, Joe.
Queenan, Joe -- Childhood and youth.
Queenan, Joe -- Family.
Working class -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography.
Fathers and sons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Family violence -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Forgiveness -- Case studies.
Social mobility -- United States -- Case studies.
Authors, American -- Biography.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780670020638
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Queenan, Joe | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |