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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816678603321

Autore

Crandell Doug

Titolo

The all-American industrial motel : a memoir / / Doug Crandell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : Chicago Review Press, 2007

ISBN

1-55652-742-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Disciplina

818/.603

B

Soggetti

Authors, American - 21st century

Wabash Region (Ind.) Social life and customs

Indiana Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; Introduction; PART I: JUNE 1990; PART II: JULY 1990; PART III: AUGUST 1990; Epilogue; Afterword; Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

This volatile memoir from Doug Crandell weaves a darkly comic and thoroughly heartbreaking coming-of-age tale set in 1990 as the author is about to graduate from college. With very few job prospects and in need of tuition money, he joins his father working at a ceiling tile factory in tiny Lagro, Indiana. As his father moves headlong into a midlife crisis?complete with a bad toupee and a penchant for drinking on the job?Crandell's mother struggles with depression and talks in the third person as she manages a fast-food joint, where she compels her crew to dress in homemade costumes. As th