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The All-American Industrial Motel. A Memoir.
Doug Crandell
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Description for The All-American Industrial Motel. A Memoir.
Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: BG; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 428.
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 the author struggles ... Read more
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 the author struggles ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Chicago Review Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781556526169
SKU
V9781556526169
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Ref
99-20
About Doug Crandell
Doug Crandell is the author of Pig Boy's Wicked Bird. His stories and essays have appeared in Atlanta Magazine, Glimmer Train, Indianapolis Monthly, Smithsonian, and The SUN and have been published in the anthologies Mother Knows: 24 Tales of Motherhood and Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe III: An Anthology of Southern Writers. He lives in Marietta, Georgia.
Reviews for The All-American Industrial Motel. A Memoir.
"Looks at the wearying soul and jagged edges of Rust Belt America with sensitivity and sharpness . . . a truly unique voice."
Dean Bakopoulos, author, Please Don't Come Back from the Moon "An affecting memoir told with unflinching honesty."
Cathy Day, author, The Circus in Winter
Dean Bakopoulos, author, Please Don't Come Back from the Moon "An affecting memoir told with unflinching honesty."
Cathy Day, author, The Circus in Winter