Closing Time

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 03/30/2010
ISBN: 9780143116684
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.42h x 5.60w x 0.80d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 04/25/2010 pg. 24