Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Viking, 2009
DESCRIPTION
338 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780670020638, 067002063X, 9780143116684 (pbk.), 0143116681 (pbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The man on the roof -- Sin City -- The predicament -- Domine, non sum dignus -- Semper fidelis -- The parting of the Reed Sea -- Twilight of the apothecaries -- C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre -- Second fiddle -- Management potential -- Walkabout -- Closing time -- Epilogue
Queenan's deeply funny and affecting memoir about his great escape from a childhood of poverty in a Philadelphia housing project in the early 1960s