02154nam 2200493Ia 450 991081667860332120240410141459.01-55652-742-X(CKB)1000000000341431(EBL)293499(OCoLC)191935462(MiAaPQ)EBC293499(Au-PeEL)EBL293499(CaPaEBR)ebr10173868(CaONFJC)MIL534569(EXLCZ)99100000000034143120060609d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe all-American industrial motel[electronic resource] a memoir /Doug CrandellChicago Chicago Review Press20071 online resource (257 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-306-03318-7 1-55652-616-4 Table of Contents; Introduction; PART I: JUNE 1990; PART II: JULY 1990; PART III: AUGUST 1990; Epilogue; Afterword; AcknowledgmentsThis 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 thAuthors, American21st centuryBiographyWabash Region (Ind.)Social life and customsIndianaIntellectual lifeAuthors, American818/.603BCrandell Doug1608294MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816678603321The all-American industrial motel3934961UNINA