Jean Shepherd

Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories

And Other Disasters

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 1982
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 138mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9780385116329
• ISBN-10: 0385116322
• Artikelnr.: 21688823

Autorenporträt

For many years a cult radio and cabaret personality in New York City, Jean Shepherd was the creator of the popular film A Christmas Story, which is based on his novels In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash and Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories, and which has become a holiday tradition on the Turner Network. Jean Shepherd passed away in 1999.