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

Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories: And Other Disasters Paperback - 1976

by Shepherd, Jean

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Crown, 1976. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories: And Other Disasters
  • Author Shepherd, Jean
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Later Printing
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Crown, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1976
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0385116322I3N10
  • ISBN 9780385116329 / 0385116322
  • Weight 0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.22 x 5.44 x 0.94 in (20.88 x 13.82 x 2.39 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Humorous stories, American
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 72161317
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the publisher

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 in part on this book and has become a holiday tradition on the Turner Network. He died in October 1999 near his home on Sanibel Island, Florida.

First line

" 'Mah-ree Elena, yore the answer to mah prayer....' "

From the jacket flap

A bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana, reissued in a strikingly designed trade paperback edition.
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.

Media reviews

"Shepherd has a fine eye for absurdity, for the madness and idiocy in all of us." --Best Sellers

About the author

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.