Joe College

Description:

For many Ivy League college students, spring break means a raucous road trip to a spot in the sun. For Danny, a Yale junior, the spring of 1982 means two weeks in central New Jersey behind the wheel of his dad's lunch truck, the *Roach Coach*. But Danny can use the time with the coffee urn to try to make sense of a love life that's gotten a little complicated.There's loyal and patient hometown honey Cindy and her recently dropped bombshell to contend with. And there's also lissome Polly in New Haven--with her shifting moods, thrift store dresses, and inconvenient liaison with a dashing professor. If girl problems aren't enough, there's the menace of the Lunch Monsters, a group of thugs who think Danny has placed the "Roach Coach" in their territory. Populated by a vividly drawn cast of characters, *Joe College* is Tom Perrotta's warmest and funniest fiction yet---a comic journey into the dark side of love, higher education, and food service. (Description provided by publisher).

subjects: College students,  Fiction,  Bildungsromans,  Family-owned business enterprises,  New jersey, fiction,  Fiction, general,  Man-woman relationships,  American fiction,  Coming of age

Places: New Jersey,  New Haven (Conn.)

Times: 1982