. . "FICTION Literary." . . "Family-owned business enterprises Fiction." . . . . . "Fiction"@en . "Fiction" . . . . . . "Bildungsromans" . "Bildungsromans"@en . . . "\"In 1982, one Yale junior struggles with George Eliot, dorm blanket bingo, dining-hall dish-line duty, a massive crush on a girl in love with his favorite prof, daily cards and calls from a girl back home in New Jersey, and a lush profusion of authentically individual yet instantly recognizable undergrad eccentrics. After an evening of ritualistic bong hits, kimchee feasting, and sympathetic discussion of Leon Czolgosz, the anarchist who shot President McKinley, Danny thinks of his parents: \"Was this what they scrimped and sacrificed for all those years? So their son could spend his Tuesday nights drinking beer, smoking dope, eating weird food, and learning to see the assassin's side of the story?\"\"--Amazon.com review."@en . "\"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.\"--Jacket." . . . . . . . "Joe College"@en . "Joe College" . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . . . . . "For many college students, Spring Break means fun and sun in Florida. For Danny, a Yale junior, it means two weeks behind the wheel of the Roach Coach, his father's lunch truck, which plies the parking lots of office parks in central New Jersey. But Danny can use the time behind the coffee urn to try and 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 back in New Haven--with her shifting moods, perfect thrift store dresses and inconvenient liaison with a dashing professor. If girl problems aren't enough, there's the constant menace of the Lunch Monsters, a group of thugs who think Danny has planted the Roach Coach in their territory. 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."@en . . . . . "College stories"@en . "College stories" . "For Danny, a Yale junior and the sympathetic everyman hero of this novel, now in paperback, Spring Break means two weeks behind the wheel of the Roach Coach, his father's lunch truck. Danny uses the time to make sense of his love life, which gets pretty complicated. A \"New York Times\" Notable Book of the Year."@en . "New Haven (Conn.)" . . "College students Fiction." . . "Fiction." . . "College students." . . "Family-owned business enterprises." . . "New Jersey" . . "New Jersey." . "Connecticut" . .