Closing Time

Joe Queenan

RRP: £14.99

Publisher: PICADOR

Publication Date : 05/06/2009

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

Moving yet funny memoir of Queenan's escape from his childhood in working-class Philadelphia in the 1960s. At times shocking, it is ultimately uplifting and evokes the atmosphere of the times with great skill, colour and wit.

Publisher's description:

The author's acerbic riffs have made him one of the most popular commentators. This title recounts his Irish Catholic upbringing in a family dominated by his erratic father, a violent yet oddly charming emotional terrorist whose alcoholism fuels a limitless torrent of self-pity, railing, destruction, and late-night chats with the Lord Himself.

ISBN: 9780330458276