{"product_id":"closing-time-a-memoir","title":"Joe Queenan: Closing Time [2010] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy turns hilarious and heartbreaking, \u003ci\u003eClosing Time\u003c\/i\u003e recounts Joe Queenan's Irish Catholic upbringing in a family dominated by his erratic father, a violent yet oddly charming emotional terrorist whose alcoholism fuels a limitless torrent of self-pity, railing, destruction, and late-night chats with the Lord Himself. With the help of a series of mentors and surrogate fathers, and armed with his own furious love of books and music, Joe begins the long flight away from the dismal confines of his neighbourhood - with a brief misbegotten stop at a seminary - and into the wider world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eClosing Time\u003c\/i\u003e is an unforgettable account of the damage done to children by parents without futures and of the grace children find to move beyond these experiences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e `\u003ci\u003eClosing Time\u003c\/i\u003e is unmistakably a tale of triumph, vindication and revenge . . . [an] enlightening account of the ways in which we are all, to some extent, casualties of our own childhoods.' Sarah Churchwell, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e `A brutally executed coming-of-age story' \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e `Will have readers crying tears of both sorrow and hilarity' \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Queenan, Joe","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":47811333325139,"sku":"XG80330458283","price":2.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47838143316307,"sku":"XV80330458283","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/queenan-joe-joe-queenan-closing-time-2010-paperback-54991665594707.jpg?v=1728188049","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/closing-time-a-memoir","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}