LEADER 02067nam 2200457Ia 450 001 9910784236003321 005 20230207225522.0 010 $a1-55652-742-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000341431 035 $a(EBL)293499 035 $a(OCoLC)191935462 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC293499 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL293499 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10173868 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL534569 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000341431 100 $a20060609d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 200 14$aThe all-American industrial motel$b[electronic resource] $ea memoir /$fDoug Crandell 210 $aChicago $cChicago Review Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (257 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-306-03318-7 311 $a1-55652-616-4 327 $aTable of Contents; Introduction; PART I: JUNE 1990; PART II: JULY 1990; PART III: AUGUST 1990; Epilogue; Afterword; Acknowledgments 330 $aThis 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 606 $aAuthors, American$y21st century$vBiography 607 $aWabash Region (Ind.)$xSocial life and customs 607 $aIndiana$xIntellectual life 615 0$aAuthors, American 676 $a818/.603 676 $aB 700 $aCrandell$b Doug$01470786 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784236003321 996 $aThe all-American industrial motel$93682845 997 $aUNINA