The all-American industrial motel [[electronic resource] ] : a memoir / / Doug Crandell
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Crandell Doug
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| Titolo: |
The all-American industrial motel [[electronic resource] ] : a memoir / / Doug Crandell
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| Pubblicazione: | Chicago, : Chicago Review Press, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 818/.603 |
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| Soggetto topico: | Authors, American - 21st century |
| Soggetto geografico: | Wabash Region (Ind.) Social life and customs |
| Indiana Intellectual life | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The all-American industrial motel |
| ISBN: | 1-55652-742-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910784236003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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