{"product_id":"chasing-drew-hastings-a-memoir-9781735806624","title":"Chasing Drew Hastings: A memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Drew Hastings was seven years old, his father, also named \u003cstrong\u003eDrew\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eHastings\u003c\/strong\u003e, left the family, remarried, and had another son, named Drew Hastings. \"Suddenly there were three Drew Hastings,\" Hastings writes, \"me, the one who left me, and the one who replaced me.\" And so begins a life-long pursuit of a name, and one long, slow skid toward the realization that we're all just making it up as we go along.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe son of a single mother, Hastings picks his way through suburban and urban Ohio, obsessed with proving himself against the backdrop of the counterculture of the Sixties and Seventies. He opens a paper shredding business, tries his hand as a rug salesman, even dabbles in muskrat trapping. Most enterprises end in disaster and nothing lasts long. Finally someone suggests \u003cstrong\u003estandup\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ecomedy\u003c\/strong\u003e-friends always said he was funny, plus the idea of 'Drew Hastings' on marquees all over the country is too much to pass up. He moves to Hollywood where he flirts with fame but can't quite bring himself to grovel long enough. And just as a dark depression takes hold, he finally bolts, buys a farm in rural Appalachian Ohio, and at the age of fifty, starts over, breeding cattle, developing real estate, and yes, becoming the \u003cstrong\u003emayor\u003c\/strong\u003e of \u003cstrong\u003eHillsboro\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eOhio\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRefreshingly honest and \u003cstrong\u003edarkly\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003efunny\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eChasing Drew Hastings \u003c\/em\u003eis a wide-ranging memoir of a life ruled by misadventure and coincidence, growing up a confused kid and striving to find out what it means to be a man. Drawing on everything from small town politics to the ambition and malaise of show biz, Drew Hastings reckons with \u003cstrong\u003eAmerican\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003emasculinity\u003c\/strong\u003e, fatherhood, and inheritance head on. Unlikely, irreverent, and \u003cstrong\u003ewholly\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eoriginal\u003c\/strong\u003e, the result is endlessly entertaining, and perhaps even inadvertently revelatory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Drew Hastings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Caleb Hill Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.55d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781735806624","brand":"Caleb Hill Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39828273397875,"sku":"9781735806624","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_f83ba9d3-b489-48e9-933c-5d4cf4bc22b7.jpg?v=1644599517","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/chasing-drew-hastings-a-memoir-9781735806624","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}