Ebook {Epub PDF} Closing Time by Joe Queenan

"Closing Time" is a tale of survival, full of the requisite twists and turns, but there's no question that the author will prevail -- it's only a matter of how. Partly a coming-of-age story, the memoir is mostly a rant -- justified -- against poverty, and especially against the father Queenan learned to . Closing Time is Joe Queenan's memoir of paternal terror and loathing set against a Philadelphia cityscape ruled by a boozy tyrant who doesn't merit the honorific of "father," and whose death, ultimately, evokes more relief than grief/5(99).  · In “Closing Time,” Joe Queenan’s new memoir, the author was none too pleased with his high school girlfriend when she told him that “she Is Accessible For Free: False.

Closing Time. A Memoir. By Joe Queenan. (Viking; pages; $). Joe Queenan has been avoiding indulging in self-pity his entire life. He doesn't know any other way of being; for this tough guy, it has been his survival mechanism - and for the most part, it has worked pretty well. Closing time. Item Preview. remove-circle. texts. Closing time. by. Joe Queenan. Publication date. Joe Queenan. "Semper Fidelis From the time I was small, I kept my eyes peeled for role models I could substitute for my unsatisfactory father. They did not have to be breathing. One day when I was five years old, I stumbled upon a curious object in my parents' bedroom.

A deeply funny and affecting memoir about a great escape from a childhood of poverty. Joe Queenan's acerbic riffs on movies, sports, books, politics, and many of the least forgivable phenomena of. In “Closing Time,” Joe Queenan’s new memoir, the author was none too pleased with his high school girlfriend when she told him that “she had big plans for her life, and that none of them. Closing Time is Joe Queenan's memoir of paternal terror and loathing set against a Philadelphia cityscape ruled by a boozy tyrant who doesn't merit the honorific of "father," and whose death, ultimately, evokes more relief than grief.