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Hardcover:
9780670025824 | Viking Pr, October 25, 2012, cover price $24.95
Paperback:
9780143124207 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, October 29, 2013), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: An absolute must-read for anyone who loves booksIn Closing Time, Joe Queenan shared how he became a voracious reader to escape a joyless childhood.
Paperback:
9781447218937 | Pan Macmillan, January 5, 2012, cover price $25.35
A deeply funny and affecting memoir about a great escape from a childhood of poverty.
Hardcover:
9780670020638 | Viking Pr, April 16, 2009, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A deeply funny and affecting memoir about a great escape from a childhood of poverty.
Paperback:
9780330458283 | Pan Macmillan, May 21, 2010, cover price $15.15
The author recounts how he cast aside a stressful Fourth of July family get-together for a trip to Great Britain, during which he confronted offbeat politics and eccentric characters in the nation's pubs, countryside, and cultural locales.
Hardcover:
9780805069808 | Henry Holt & Co, October 1, 2004, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: The author recounts how he cast aside a stressful Fourth of July family get-together for a trip to Great Britain, during which he confronted offbeat politics and eccentric characters in the nation's pubs, countryside, and cultural locales.
Paperback:
9780312425210 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, November 15, 2005), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: The American author of True Believers recounts how he cast aside a stressful Fourth of July family get-together for a trip to Great Britain, during which he confronted offbeat politics and a host of eccentric characters in the nation's pubs, countryside, and cultural locales.
Miscellaneous:
9781429900829 | 1 edition (Henry Holth & Co, April 1, 2007), cover price $9.99
Hardcover:
9780805069792 | 1 edition (Henry Holt & Co, May 1, 2003), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A humorist and dedicated Philadelphia Phillies fan examines the culture and psychology behind fan loyalty to teams that lose.
Paperback:
9780312423216 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, April 1, 2004), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: A humorist and dedicated Philadelphia Phillies fan examines the culture and psychology behind fan loyalty to teams that lose, detailing the fan experience with such sections as 'Fans Who Love Too Much,' 'Fans Who Run in Front,' and 'Fans Who Misbehave.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781559278959 | Abridged edition (St Martins Pr, May 1, 2003), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A humorist and dedicated Philadelphia Phillies fan examines the culture and psychology behind fan loyalty to teams that lose.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781559278966 | Abridged edition (St Martins Pr, June 1, 2003), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A humorist and dedicated Philadelphia Phillies fan examines the culture and psychology behind fan loyalty to teams that lose.
Paperback:
9780762416974 | Running Pr Book Pub, March 2, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Popular satirist Joe Queenan proves that cynicism in literature flourished long before Generation X in this acerbic compendium of the best classic satirical writing from the last several centuries, as well as from Ancient Greece.
Hardcover:
9780762413447 | Running Pr Book Pub, August 1, 2002, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Collects satirical essays, short stories, novels, plays, and poems from world literature of different time periods, including 'The Birds' by Aristophanes, 'Candide' by Voltaire, and 'Lady Susan' by Jane Austen.
Hardcover:
9780805067200 | Henry Holt & Co, May 1, 2001, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: In a humorous work of social commentary, the author confronts the 'Baby Boomer' generation, pointing out their most annoying and egocentric behaviors while also deconstructing their history.
Paperback:
9780312420826 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, June 1, 2002), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: In a humorous work of social commentary, the author of Red Lobster, White Trash and the Blue Lagoon confronts the Baby Boomer Generation, pointing out their most annoying and egocentric behaviors while also deconstructing their history.
Paperback:
9780786884667 | Reprint edition (Hyperion Books, July 1, 2001), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Offers a humorous description of the difficulties of turning from a cynical social critic into a journalist who promotes an upbeat, politically correct outlook on life
Hardcover:
9780786865536 | Hyperion Books, February 1, 2000, cover price $21.45 | About this edition: Offers a humorous description of the difficulties of turning from a cynical social critic into a journalist who promotes an upbeat, politically correct outlook on life
Paperback:
9780786884643 | Hyperion Books, February 1, 2000, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Applying his razorsharp wit to the world of film, America's 'cynic Laureate' takes on the starts, directors, and producers who take themselves very seriously, and the audiences who are often duped and reeled in by their product.
Product Description: In this wickedly funny book, Joe Queenan is back in the movie theater, heckling the stars, directors, producers -- and audiences -- that define today's film industry. With his "keen eye for hokum and bunk, fraud and pomposity" (Jonathan Yardley), Queenan takes on such lofty subjects as "The Remains of the Dazed" (an informed discussion of the Merchant Ivory duo's oeuvre) and "Hair Force" (a treatise on movie stars with "hideous, hilarious, or otherwise highly disruptive hairstyles")...read more
Hardcover:
9780786865086 | Hyperion Books, May 1, 1999, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: In this wickedly funny book, Joe Queenan is back in the movie theater, heckling the stars, directors, producers -- and audiences -- that define today's film industry.
Hardcover:
9780786863327 | Hyperion Books, July 1, 1998, cover price $21.45 | About this edition: The author explores American mass culture by exposing the media and cultural successes he finds a sorry testament to taste, with some noted exceptions
Paperback:
9780786884087, titled "Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon: Joe Queenan's America" | Hachette Book Group USA, April 1, 1999, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: The author explores American mass culture by exposing the media and cultural successes he finds a sorry testament to taste, with some noted exceptions
Hardcover:
9781562827885, titled "If You're Talking to Me, Your Career Must Be in Trouble: Movies, Mayhem, and Malice" | Hyperion Books, February 1, 1994, cover price $22.45 | About this edition: Essays discuss Mickey Rourke, Oliver Stone, Sean Young, Barbra Streisand, Woody Allen, Keanu Reeves, Jessica Lange, Melanie Griffith, and Martin Scorsese
Paperback:
9780786884605, titled "If You're Talking to Me, Your Career Must Be in Trouble: Movies, Mayhem, and Malice" | Hyperion Books, April 1, 1999, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Now in paperback--the hilarious and scandalous book that skewered Hollywood.
9780786880676 | Hyperion Books, February 1, 1995, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss Mickey Rourke, Oliver Stone, Sean Young, Barbra Streisand, Woody Allen, Keanu Reeves, Jessica Lange, Melanie Griffith, and Martin Scorsese
Hardcover:
9780786860906 | Hyperion Books, February 1, 1996, cover price $22.45 | About this edition: A film critic offers an account of the art of low-budget moviemaking, from financing to writing, directing, scoring, casting, and marketing
Paperback:
9780786881987 | Hyperion Books, March 1, 1997, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A film critic offers an account of the art of low-budget moviemaking, from financing to writing, directing, scoring, casting, and marketing
Hardcover:
9781562829391 | Hyperion Books, October 1, 1992, cover price $22.45 | About this edition: Discusses Dan's wife Marilyn, the ten stupidest people in Washington after Dan Quayle, and other less-than-intelligent V.
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