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Closing time : a memoir /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Queenan, Joe
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Viking, 2009.
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.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Biography.
Forgiveness > Case studies.
Social mobility > United States > Case studies.
Authors, American > Biography.
Online Access:Publisher description
Table of 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.