![]() ![]() Against the odds, the bright young Joe used the Roman Catholic church and a college education to lever his way out of terribly inadequate family circumstances. ![]() The family moved into social housing in a spiral of downward social mobility as his father became less and less capable of holding down a job. It seems that Mrs Queenan lacked homemaking and parenting skills and realized early on that she had made a poor choice of mate. Otherwise, he was an alcoholic, frequently beating his young children. Practically the only way his father provided a role model was in his love of reading. ![]() He grew up in Philadelphia, born to parents so immersed in their own problems that they made little attempt to love or care for their four children. His world was a far cry from the middle class background of most aspiring writers of his generation. Joe Queenan made good despite a deprived and neglected childhood. Joe Queenan sets the record straight about his alcoholic father and deprived Catholic childhood in Philadelphia in the 1950's and 1960's. Summary: A detailed memoir of a father/son relationship. ![]()
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