Closing Time

<b> An affecting memoir from one of America's most provocative humorists</b> <p/> 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 <i>Closing Time</i> 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 <i>Closing Time</i> 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 <i>Closing Time</i> has at its heart the makings of a classic American autobiography.