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Queenan, Joe My Goodness: A Cynic's Short-lived Search for Sainthood
Hyperion Books 2000 0786865539 / 9780786865536 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new condition - Appears unread. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings - Tight spine - Bright pages. 208 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. - Critic and bestselling author Joe Queenan had made a career of being vicious — then he decided to be nice. The result is a biting, hilarious tale of a very bad man's attempts to be good. Years upon years of being unspeakably nasty to icons as diverse as Jimmy Carter, Barbra Streisand, and even Mother Nature herself had taken its toll on Joe Queenan. The man all editors turned to when they needed a book, film, or tv program savaged was tired of being so mean. He wanted to be more like Susan Sarandon. Or Sting. Determined to mend his ways, Queenan embarked on the most difficult task of his career: he decided to become a nice person. Now available in paperback, My Goodness is the side-splitting result of Queenan's attempted transformation: from his use of animal-friendly Body Shop goods to his letter of apology to Jackie Collins after a scathing review of her latest book; from his quest to save the whales to his quest to save Linda Tripp. Joe Queenan has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Spy, the Wall Street Journal, the New Republic, Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and other publications. He is a contributing editor at GQ and Movieline. The author of four previous books, including the bestseller Red Lobster, White Trash, and The Blue Lagoon, he lives in Tarrytown, New York. ". . . That, as this thoroughly delightful and very smart book makes plain, is very good for the reader's mental environment." (Washington Post) "The year's most sinfully rewarding guilty pleasure." (New York Times Book Review)
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Queenan, Joe Queenan Country: A Reluctant Anglophile's Pilgrimage to the Mother Country
New York, New York, U.S.A. Henry Holt & Company 2004 0805069801 / 9780805069808 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine
Like-new copy - Appears unread. Stated First Edition - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Tight spine - Bright pages. 240 pages - NO writing, marks or tears - 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 Christmas pudding that awaited him for dessert, that inspired the author to make a solitary pilgrimage to Great Britain. Freed from the obligation to visit an unending procession of Aunty Margarets and Cousin Robins, as he had done for the first twenty-six years of their marriage, Queenan decided that he would not come back from Albion until he had finally penetrated the limey heart of darkness. His trip was not in vain. Crisscrossing Old Blighty like Cromwell hunting Papists, Queenan finally came to terms with the choochiness, squiffiness, ponciness, and sticky wicketness that lie at the heart of the British character. Here he is trying to find out whose idea it was to impale King Edward II on a red-hot poker-and what this says about English sexual politics. Here he is in an Edinburgh pub foolishly trying to defend Paul McCartney's "Ebony and Ivory." And here he is, trapped in a concert hall with a Coventry-based all-Brit Eagles tribute band named Talon who resent that they are nowhere near as famous as their evil nemeses, the Illegal Eagles. At the end of his epic adventure, the author returns chastened, none the wiser, but encouraged that his wife is actually as sane as she is, in light of her fellow countrymen.
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Queenan, Joe Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon: Joe Queenan's America
Hyperion 1998 0786863323 / 9780786863327 First Edition Hard Cover Near-Fine Near-Fine
Very-nice, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $21.95. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 194 pages. Tight spine, clean pages. Dustcover is clean - shows 2 tiny, closed tears. Synopsis For fourteen years, critic Joe Queenan walked past the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City without once even dreaming of venturing inside to see Cats. One fateful afternoon in March 1996, however, having grown weary of his hopelessly elitist lifestyle, he decided to buy a half-price ticket and check out Andrew Lloyd Webber's record-breaking juggernaut. No, he did not expect the musical to be any good, but surely there were limits to how bad it could be. Here, Queenan was tragically mistaken. Cats, what Grease would look like if all the cast members dressed up like KISS, was infinitely more idiotic than he had ever imagined. Yet now the Rubicon had been crossed. Queenan had involuntarily launched himself on a harrowing personal odyssey: an 18-month descent into the abyss of American popular culture. At first, Queenan found things to be every bit as atrocious as he expected. John Tesh defiling the temple of Carnegie Hall reminded him of Adolf Hitler goose-stepping in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower. The Celestine Prophecy and The Horse Whisperer proved to be prodigiously cretinous. And the sight of senior citizens forking over their hard-earned nickels and dimes to watch Joe Pesci in Gone Fishin' so moved Queenan that he began standing outside the theater issuing refunds to exiting patrons. But then something strange happened. Queenan started enjoying Barry Manilow concerts. He went to see Julie Andrews and Liza Minnelli and Raquel Welch in Victor/Victoria. He said nice things about Larry King and Charles Grodin in his weekly TV Guide column. Most frightening of all, he shook hands with Geraldo Rivera. How Queenan finally escaped from the cultural Hot Zone and returned to civilization is an epic tale as heart-warming, awe-inspiring, and life-affirming as Robinson Crusoe, The Adventures of Marco Polo, Gulliver's Travels, and Swiss Family Robinson. Well, almost.
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