Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories
And Other Disasters
Fiction & Literature, Coming of Age, Humorous, Short Stories
| Author: | Jean Shepherd | ISBN: | 9780307575364 |
| Publisher: | Crown/Archetype | Publication: | May 12, 2010 |
| Imprint: | Broadway Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Jean Shepherd |
| ISBN: | 9780307575364 |
| Publisher: | Crown/Archetype |
| Publication: | May 12, 2010 |
| Imprint: | Broadway Books |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
