The all-American industrial motel : a memoir / Doug Crandell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crandell, Doug.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, American--21st century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Wabash Region (Ind.)--Social life and customs.

Wabash Region (Ind.).

Indiana--Intellectual life.

Indiana.

Crandell, Doug--Childhood and youth.

Crandell, Doug.

Crandell, Doug--Homes and haunts--Indiana--Wabash Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Chicago Review Press, 2007.

Summary:

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

Contents:

Table of Contents; Introduction; PART I: JUNE 1990; PART II: JULY 1990; PART III: AUGUST 1990; Epilogue; Afterword; Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-55652-742-X

OCLC:

191935462