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02888aam a2200361 a 4500 001 95E977AA9F7611ECBC2E855C59ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220309010020 008 220218s2021 ohu e 000 0aeng d 020 $a 1735806625 020 $a 9781735806624 035 $a (OCoLC)1298287922 040 $a SRB $b eng $c SRB $d IOU $d SILO 043 $a n-us-oh 082 14 $a 921 $2 14 082 $a B HAS 100 1 $a Hastings, Drew, $e author. 245 10 $a Chasing Drew Hastings : $b a memoir / $c Drew Hastings. 264 1 $a [Ohio] : $b Caleb Hill Press, $c ©2022. 300 $a 229 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "When Drew Hastings was seven years old, his father, also named Drew Hastings, 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. The 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 standup comedy--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 mayor of Hillsboro, Ohio. Refreshingly honest and darkly funny, Chasing Drew Hastings is 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 American masculinity, fatherhood, and inheritance head on. Unlikely, irreverent, and wholly original, the result is endlessly entertaining, and perhaps even inadvertently revelatory." --Back cover. 600 10 $a Hastings, Drew. 650 0 $a Comedians $v Biography. 650 0 $a Politicians $z Hillsboro $z Hillsboro $v Biography. 650 0 $a Mayors $v Biography. 651 0 $a Appalachian Region $v Biography. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 3 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010025525.0 952 $l NZPA343 $d 20220603140314.0 $m B Has 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220309010133.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=95E977AA9F7611ECBC2E855C59ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search