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Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories: And Other Disasters Paperback - 1976
by Shepherd, Jean
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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 - Very 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 # G0385116322I4N00
- 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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" '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.
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.