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  • Balsamic Dreams

    A Short but Self-Important History of the Baby Boomer Generation

    de Joe Queenan ...
    The author of the bestselling Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon takes aim at the boomer generation in a hilarious work of social commentary.It's become fashionable to vilify baby boomers. Professional iconoclast and baby boomer Joe Queenan, however, takes a somewhat more benign position: Yes, the baby boomers are venal, self-obsessed egomaniacs blighted by an insalubrious interest in ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Closing Time

    A Memoir

    de Joe Queenan ...
    An affecting memoir from one of America's most provocative humoristsOver the past two decades, Joe Queenan has established himself as a scourge of everything that is half-baked, half-witted, and halfhearted in American culture. In Closing Time, Queenan turns his sights on a more serious and a more personal topic: his childhood in a Philadelphia housing project in the early 1960s. By turns ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Coming of Age in a Hardscrabble World

    A Memoir Anthology

    de Maya Angelou, Russell Baker, Kim Barnes, Rick Bragg, Rosemary L. Bray, Mary Childers, Paul Clemens, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Vivian Gornick, Pete Hamill, E. Lynn Harris, Daisy Hernández, Oscar Hijuelos, Richard Hoffman, bell hooks, Mary Karr, Michael C. Keith, Michael Patrick MacDonald, Bich Minh Nguyen, Joe Queenan, Luis J. Rodriguez, Richard Rodriguez, Esmeralda Santiago, Sandra Scofield, Kate Simon, Brent Staples, Michelle Tea, Tobias Wolff, Monica Wood, Howard Zinn ...
    Nonfiction storytelling is at its best in this anthology of excerpts from memoirs by thirty authors—some eminent, some less well known—who grew up tough and talented in working-class America. Their stories, selected from literary memoirs published between 1982 and 2014, cover episodes from childhood to young adulthood within a spectrum of life-changing experiences. Although diverse ethnically, ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

  • One for the Books

    de Joe Queenan ...
    One of America’s leading humorists and author of the bestseller Closing Time examines his own obsession with booksJoe Queenan became a voracious reader as a means of escape from a joyless childhood in a Philadelphia housing project. In the years since then he has dedicated himself to an assortment of idiosyncratic reading challenges: spending a year reading only short books, spending a year ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • True Believers

    The Tragic Inner Life of Sports Fans

    de Joe Queenan ...
    Bestselling author Joe Queenan's True Believers explores the world of sports fans in an attempt to understand the inexplicable: What does anyone get out of it?For Yankee, Cowboy, and Laker fans the answer is fairly clear: the return on investment is relatively high. But why do people root so passionately for formerly inept teams like the Boston Red Sox, the Chicago Cubs, and the Philadelphia ... Leer más

    Antes $12.99 USD Ahora $2.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Queenan Country

    A Reluctant Anglophile's Pilgrimage to the Mother Country

    de Joe Queenan ...
    In this hilarious romp through England, one of America's preeminent humorists seeks the answer to an eternal question: What makes the Brits tick?One semitropical Fourth of July, Joe Queenan's English wife suggested that the family might like a chicken vindaloo in lieu of the customary barbecue. It was this pitiless act of gastronomic cultural oppression, coupled with dread of the fearsome ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • A Galaxy Not So Far Away

    Writers and Artists on Twenty-Five Years of Star Wars

    de Dave Eggers, Kevin Smith, Joe Queenan ...
    A dazzling collection of original essays by some of America's most notable young writers on the cultural impact of the Star Wars filmsA Galaxy Not So Far Away is the first ever exploration of the innumerable ways the Star Wars films have forever altered our cultural and artistic landscape. Edited by Glenn Kenny, a senior editor and critic at Premiere magazine, this singular collection allows ... Leer más

    $11.59 USD

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    True Believers

    The Tragic Inner Life of Sports Fans

    de Joe Queenan ...
    Narrado por Joe Queenan ...

    Abreviado

    5 hora 48 minutos

    Bestselling author Joe Queenan's True Believers explores the world of sports fans in an attempt to understand the inexplicable: What does anyone get out of it?For Yankee, Cowboy, and Laker fans the answer is fairly clear: the return on investment is relatively high. But why do people root so passionately for formerly inept teams like the Boston Red Sox, the Chicago Cubs, and the Philadelphia ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • Audiolibro

    Closing Time

    A Memoir

    de Joe Queenan ...
    Narrado por Johnny Heller ...

    Completo

    12 hora 29 minutos

    Joe Queenan's acerbic riffs on movies, sports, books, politics, and many of the least forgivable phenomena of pop culture have made him one of the most popular humorists and commentators of our time. In Closing Time, Queenan turns his sights on a more serious and personal topic: his childhood in a Philadelphia housing project in the early 1960s. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Closing Time ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

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  • Prince Eddy

    The King Britain Never Had

    de Andrew Cook ...
    Prince Albert Victor, King Edward VII's (r. 1901-10) first son and heir to the throne, and popularly known as Eddy, has virtually been airbrushed out of history. Eddy was as popular and charismatic a figure in his own time as Princess Diana a century later. As in her case, his sudden death in 1892 resulted in public demonstrations of grief on a scale rarely seen at the time, and it was even ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Etta and Otto and Russell and James

    A Novel

    de Emma Hooper ...
    This “poetic, poignant” (US Weekly) debut features last great adventures, unlikely heroes, and a “sweet, disarming story of lasting love” (The New York Times Book Review).Eighty-three-year-old Etta has never seen the ocean. So early one morning she takes a rifle, some chocolate, and her best boots and begins walking the 3,232 kilometers from rural Saskatchewan, Canada eastward to the sea. As Etta ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

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  • Love Anthony

    de Lisa Genova ...
    From neuroscientist and New York Times bestselling author of Still Alice, a "beautifully written and poignant" (USA TODAY) novel about autism, grief, motherhood, friendship, and unconditional love.In an insightful, deeply human story reminiscent of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Daniel Isn’t Talking, and The Reason I Jump, Lisa Genova offers a unique perspective in fiction—the ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro