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

ISBN: 0385116322

Author: Shepherd, Jean

Condition: New

A bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana and the basis of the movie A Christmas Story.Mr. Shepherd has the true satirists grip on his pen: he is humorous, sympathetic,and ironic all at once.-Boston GlobeBefore 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 Hickeys Night of Golden Memories represents one of the peaks of his achievement, a compound of irony, affection, and perfect detail that speaks across generations.Wanda Hickeys 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 and the almighty sacrifice of the Easter ham, to taffy-apple binges at the state fair and the supernatural glow surrounding unapproachable high school beauty Daphne Bigelow, to the memorable disaster that was Shepherds (and everyone elses) junior prom-these are some of the archetypal legends of childhood that Shepherd evokes from his nostalgic Indiana muse.A timeless and enduring classic, Wanda Hickeys Night of Golden Memories captures the sweet cacophonous roar of youth tempered with the wit and honesty of a grown boy