Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories: And Other Disasters

by Shepherd, Jean
ISBN: 9780385116329
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Overview

A bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana and the basis of the movie A Christmas Story.

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 is a universal (and achingly funny) orchestration of Midwestern puberty rites, from the gut-wrenching playground antics of one Delbert Bumpus, to the supernal glow surrounding unapproachable high school beauty Daphne Bigelow, to the memorable disaster that was Shepherd's (and everyone else's) junior prom.

A comic genius who bridges the gap between James Thurber and David Sedaris, Shepherd may have accomplished for Holden, Indiana, what Mark Twain did for Hannibal, Missouri.

  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Shepherd, Jean
  • ISBN: 9780385116329
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.22 x 0.94
  • Number Of Pages: 352
  • Publication Year: 1982

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