Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories And Other Disasters |
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Author:
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ISBN: | 978-0-385-11632-9 |
Publication Date: | Mar 1999 |
Publisher: | The Crown Publishing Group
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $32.99 |
Book Description:
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A bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana and the basis of the movie A Christmas Story. "Mr. Shepherd has the true satirist's grip on his pen- he is humorous, sympathetic,and ironic all at once."-Boston Globe Before Garrison Keillor and Spalding Gray there was Jean Shepherd- a master monologist and writer who spun the materials of his all-American childhood into immensely resonant-and utterly hilarious-works of comic...
More Description A bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana and the basis of the movie A Christmas Story.
"Mr. Shepherd has the true satirist's grip on his pen- he is humorous, sympathetic,and ironic all at once."-Boston Globe
Before Garrison Keillor and Spalding Gray there was Jean Shepherd- a master monologist and writer who spun the materials of his all-American childhood into immensely resonant-and utterly hilarious-works of comic art. Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories represents one of the peaks of his achievement, a compound of irony, affection, and perfect detail that speaks across generations.
Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories is a universal (and achingly funny) orchestration of Midwestern puberty rites. From the gut-wrenching playground antics of one Delbert Bumpus and the almighty sacrifice of the Easter ham, to taffy-apple binges at the state fair and the supernatural glow surrounding unapproachable high school beauty Daphne Bigelow, to the memorable disaster that was Shepherd's (and everyone else's) junior prom-these are some of the archetypal legends of childhood that Shepherd evokes from his nostalgic Indiana muse.
A timeless and enduring classic, Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories captures the sweet cacophonous roar of youth tempered with the wit and honesty of a grown boy