Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories - And Other Disasters
Jean Shepherd
Broadway (1976)
In Collection
#4145
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Humorous Fiction
Humorous Stories, American, Middle West, Teenagers, United States
Paperback 9780385116329
English
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 Memoriesis 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.
Product Details
LoC Classification PS3569.H3964 .W36 2001
LoC Control Number 2004276047
Dewey 813.54
Cover Price $14.95
No. of Pages 352
Height x Width 8.1 x 5.4  inch
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